BITHYNIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bithynia mean? 

• BITHYNIA (noun)
  The noun BITHYNIA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BITHYNIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BITHYNIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Bithynia"):

Nicaea (an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325)

Holonyms ("Bithynia" is a part of...):

Anatolia; Asia Minor (a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey)