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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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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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