Bithynia

Bithynia
geographical name ancient country NW Asia Minor bordering on the Sea of Marmara & Black Sea • Bithynian adjective or noun

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  • Bithynia — was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine (today Black Sea).DescriptionSeveral major cities sat on the fertile shores of the Propontis (which is …   Wikipedia

  • BITHYNIA — BITHYNIA, district of Asia Minor identified in the Talmud with the biblical Tubal (Yoma 10a). There is information, dated from 139 B.C.E., of a Jewish settlement in Amysos which was included in the territory of Bithynia during the period of its… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Bithynia — steht für: Bithynien, der lateinische Name für eine antike Landschaft im nordwestlichen Kleinasien eine römische Provinz, siehe Bithynia et Pontus Bithynia (Gattung), eine Gattung von Süßwasserschnecken Diese Seite ist ei …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Bithynia — Género de caracoles, algunas de cuyas especies actúan como huésped intermediario de Opisthorchis. Diccionario Mosby Medicina, Enfermería y Ciencias de la Salud, Ediciones Hancourt, S.A. 1999 …   Diccionario médico

  • Bithynia — [bə thin′ē ə] ancient country in NW Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey: fl. 3d cent. B.C. 1st cent. A.D …   English World dictionary

  • BITHYNIA — I. BITHYNIA Asiae minoris regio ad Pontum sira, Thraciae adversa, Troadi proxima, Solino, c. 44. Servio, et Martiano Capellae. ubi duo Concilia Oecumenica, et Chalcedone, ubi simile Concil. celebris. Capellae primum Bebrycia, postea Mygdonia,… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • Bithynia — Bithynian, adj., n. /bi thin ee euh/, n. an ancient state in NW Asia Minor. * * * Ancient country, northwestern Anatolia. Bounded by the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea, it was settled by Thracians in the late 2nd millennium BC.… …   Universalium

  • Bithynia — noun 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 • Instance Hypernyms: ↑geographical area, ↑geographic area, ↑geographical region, ↑geographic region •… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Bithynia tentaculata — Conservation status NE[1] …   Wikipedia

  • Bithynia (Gattung) — Bithynia Gemeine Schnauzenschnecke (Bithynia tentaculata) Systematik Klasse: Schnecken (Gastropoda) …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • BITHYNIA vel BITHYNUM — BITHYNIA, vel BITHYNUM civitas in Bithynia, a qua Bithynatae, et Bithynienses populi. Steph …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

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