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Bithynium or Bithynion (Ancient Greek: Βιθύνιον) was an ancient city in Bithynia. Its site is occupied by the modern town of Bolu, Asiatic Turkey. History. Strabo describes Bithynium as lying above Tius and it possessed the country around Salone or Salon, which was a good feeding country for cattle, and noted for its cheese.
Hellenistic Bithynia was an independent kingdom from the 4th century BC. Its capital Nicomedia was rebuilt on the site of ancient Astacus in 264 BC by Nicomedes I of Bithynia. Bithynia was bequeathed to the Roman Republic in 74 BC, and became united with the Pontus region as the province of Bithynia and Pontus.
Bolu (en Grec: Βιθύνιον Vithinion, en Latin : Bithynium ou Claudiopolis) est une ville dans le centre administratif de la province du même nom. Bolu faisait partie d’une des plus importantes cité déjà dans le royaume des Hittites autour de 2000 av.J.C.
Bolu (en grec Bithynion, Βιθύνιον [1], en latin Bithynium et Claudiopolis [2]) est une ville de Turquie, préfecture de la province du même nom.
Bithynia, ancient district in northwestern Anatolia, adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea, thus occupying an important and precarious position between East and West. Late in the 2nd millennium bc, Bithynia was occupied by warlike tribes of Thracian origin who harried Greek.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
…are ruins of the ancient Bithynium, a flourishing town of Asia Minor (Anatolia) and—as birthplace of the Roman emperor Hadrian’s favourite, Antinoüs—recipient of many privileges during that emperor’s reign (117–138 ce). Taken by the Ottoman Turks about 1325, Bolu is the reputed home of the legendary Turkish folk hero Köroğlu.
In the interior of Bithynia are, not only Bithynium, which is situated above Tieium and holds the territory round Salon, where is the best pasturage for cattle and whence comes the Salonian cheese, but also Nicaea, the metropolis of Bithynia, situated on the Ascanian Lake, which is surrounded by a plain that is large and very fertile but not at ...
