Bithynia

(bi-thin'e-a.) (Anc. Geog.) An ancient country of As i aM in or, on the Euxine Sea and the Pro pont is; b. W. by Mysia, S.E.by Phrygia and Galatia, and E. by Paphlagonia. It was colonized by the Thracians. Itwas subdued by Cræsus of Lydia, 560 B. c., and soon after fell under the Persian dominion. In abt. 440 or 430B.c., it became again an independent kingdom, with Nicomedia for its capital. Its last king, Nicomedes III., made the Romans his heirs, and B. became a p. of the empire, B. c. 74. [s. 96]