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Bithynia (/ b ɪ ˈ θ ɪ n i ə /; Koinē Greek: Βιθυνία, romanized: Bithynía) was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea.
Under king Prusias I (r. c. 228 – 182 BC), Bithynia first came into contact with the Roman Republic.Bithynia remained neutral during the Roman–Seleucid War from 192 to 188 BC, despite the Seleucid Empire and its king Antiochus the Great being the long-time enemy of the kingdom.
Bithynia and Pontus (Latin: Provincia Bithynia et Pontus, Ancient Greek Ancient Greek: Επαρχία Βιθυνίας και Πόντου, romanized: Eparkhía Bithynías kai Póntou) was the name of a province of the Roman Empire on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia (modern-day Turkey).
Bithynium or Bithynion (Ancient Greek: Βιθύνιον) was an ancient city in Bithynia. Its site is occupied by the modern town of Bolu, Asiatic Turkey. [1] [2]
Nicaea (also spelled Nicæa or Nicea, / n aɪ ˈ s iː ə / ny-SEE-ə; [9] Latin: [niːˈkae̯.a]), also known as Nikaia (Ancient Greek: Νίκαια, Attic: [nǐːkai̯a], Koine:), was an ancient Greek city in the north-western Anatolian region of Bithynia [4] [10] [11] that is primarily known as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea (the first and seventh Ecumenical councils in ...
[3] The only other mention of this person is found in Strabo's Geographica 12.4.2, [5] where his name is spelt as ̇Δοιδαλσοῦ, but he is not identified with the Bithynians, only with the city of Astacus. [5] Slavova (2015) called him a "Bithynian king". [5] According to Olmstead (2022), he was "the first-known semi-independent king of ...
Bithynian colonies (7 P) G. Geography of Bithynia (2 C, 12 P) H. Heraclea Pontica (1 C, 3 P) History of Bithynia (2 C) P. People from Bithynia (4 C, 28 P) Pages in ...
The site of ancient Libyssa is located within the modern district of Gebze in Kocaeli Province, at the coast of the Gulf of İzmit, near the city of İzmit (ancient Nicomedia) in northwestern Anatolia, Turkey.