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Bithynia

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Bi·thyn·i·a  (b-thn-)
An ancient country of northwest Asia Minor in present-day Turkey. Originally inhabited by Thracians, it was absorbed into the Roman Empire by the end of the first century b.c.

Bi·thyni·an adj. & n.

Bithynia [bɪˈθɪnɪə]
n
(Placename) an ancient country on the Black Sea in NW Asia Minor
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Noun1.Bithynia - an ancient country in northwestern Asia Minor in what is now TurkeyBithynia - an ancient country in northwestern Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; was absorbed into the Roman Empire by the end of the 1st century BC
Nicaea - an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325
Anatolia, Asia Minor - a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey


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Bekker-Nielsen sets Dion's story in the context of the history of Bithynia before the Roman conquest in order to acquaint the reader with the area before bringing the study down to the intimate "small world".
When Diocletian returns from Macedonia to Sirmium, a Christian woman, who fled from Bithynia together with her children in order to escape the anti-Christian persecution raging there, is presented to him, and Anastasia, who helps her to assist the Christians, is captured and presented to the praefectus Illyrici, Probus.
 
 
 
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