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·thyn i·an adj. & n. |
Bithynia [bɪˈθɪnɪə]
n
(Placename) an ancient country on the Black Sea in NW Asia Minor
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| Noun | 1. |  Bithynia - 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 BCNicaea - 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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