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Bithynia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nicomedes IV of Bithynia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicomedes IV Philopator , was the king of Bithynia, from c. 94 BC to 75/4 BC. He was the son and successor of Nicomedes III. There is nothing known about Nicomedes birth or the years before he became...
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Bithynia was an important place in Ancient Greece. Learn more about Bithynia at HowStuffWorks. ... Bithynia, an ancient country of northwestern Asia Minor, now part of Turkey. In early times the region was settled by people from Thrace in the eastern Balkan Peninsula. About 560 B.C., King Croesus of Lydia conquered Bithynia.
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Bithynia lies in the northwestern part of Asia Minor, between the Propontis and the Bosporus and Mysia to the west, the Euxine to the north, Phrygia and Galatia to the south, and Paphlagonia to the east. Mountains lie to the south.
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Bithynia was an ancient country in the north-western Anatolia (present-day Turkey). It was bordered by the Bosporus in the west, Black Sea in the north and Uludag mountains in the south.
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On the death of King Nicomedes III, B.C. 74, Bithynia was consti- tuted a Roman Province. The limits of the Province were subsequently enlarged, notably by the Pontic dominions of Mithradates Eupator, the whole Province being known as ‘Pontus et Bithynia'.
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Bithynia: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV ... Bithynia = "a violent rushing"; 1) a Roman province in Asia Minor, bounded by the Euxine Sea, the; Propontis, Mysia, Phrygia, Galatia, Paphlagonia ... of uncertain derivation; Bithynia, a region of Asia:-Bithynia.
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