Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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 BC.
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- proper noun An ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of
Asia Minor
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- 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
Etymologies
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A run through the historical record, staring with Tacitus on Nero's blaming the Christians for the Great Fire, then Pliny on his administrative problems in Bithynia, then a long section on Cyprian (who I think gets more coverage than any other non-emperor); then a period of relaxation, which however is abruptly reversed by Diocletian (though that period of persecution seems to be more effective in the East).
Gibbon Chapter XVI nwhyte 2010
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Soon afterwards his older brother Methodius, born about the year 815, abandoned his own administrative career and retired to a monastery on Mount Olympus in Bithynia where he was subsequently joined by Cyril.
Pope John Paul II 2009
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Several Roman citizens were brought before the tribunal of Pliny, and he soon discovered, that a great number of persons of every order of men in Bithynia had deserted the religion of their ancestors.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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* There were three actions; one near Cyzicus, on the Hellespont, one near Nice, in Bithynia, the third near the Issus, in Cilicia, where Alexander conquered Darius.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Eleven years afterwards, a more numerous and celebrated assembly was convened at Nice in Bithynia, to extinguish, by their final sentence, the subtle disputes which had arisen in Egypt on the subject of the Trinity.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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He also testifies that Pliny, the governor of a minor Roman province called Bithynia, wrote him about these proceedings.
If I Really Believe, Why Do I Have These Doubts? Dr. Lynn Anderson 2000
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He saw some Scyrri at work near Mount Olympus, in Bithynia, and cherished the vain hope that those captives were the last of the nation.] 67 Cod.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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That the said eclipse took away the light from the universal parts of the world, it appeareth that Eusebius witnesseth in his chronicles, which saith that he hath read in the dictes of the Ethnicians that there was in Bithynia, which is a province of Asia the less, a great earth shaking, and also the greatest darkness that might be, and also saith that in Nicene, which is a city of
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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Tradition makes him subsequently bishop of Chalcedon, in Bithynia.
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He was 'not suffered' to go into 'Bithynia' because 'Macedonia' was waiting for his ministry.
George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God 1874
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