Bithynia

Bithynia was an old kingdom of a Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor.Matthew Bunson, Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire (New York: Facts On File, 2002), p. 76 It was at the coast of the Black Sea. It was named after the Bithyni, a tribe that moved there from Thrace. It was an important territory for the Roman empire. Bithynia was also the site of early Christian activities in the first and second centuries AD.Graham Stanton, Studies in Matthew and Early Christianity (Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2013), p. 406

 References 

 Further reading 
 Stanley Jonathon Storey, Bithynia: history and administration to the time of Pliny the Younger (Ottawa, National Library of Canada, 1998) 

Category:Byzantine Empire