Английская Википедия:Bithynium

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Шаблон:Short description Bithynium or Bithynion (Шаблон:Lang-grc) was a city in the interior of Bithynia, lying above Tius, as Strabo describes it,[1] and possessing the country around Salone or Salon, which was a good feeding country for cattle, and noted for its cheese.[2] It was the capital of Salone district. Bithynium was the birthplace of Antinous, the favourite of Hadrian, as Pausanius tells us,[3] who adds that Bithynium is beyond, by which he probably means east of, the river Sangarius; and he adds that the remotest ancestors of the Bithynians are Arcadians and Mantineans. In this case a Greek colony settled here. Bithynium was afterwards called Claudiopolis (Greek: Κλαυδιόπολις), a name which it is conjectured it first had in the time of Tiberius; but it is strange that Pausanias does not mention this name. Dio Cassius speaks of it under the name of Bithynium and Claudiopolis also.[4] It later bore the name Hadriana after the emperor.[5] The names of Claudiopolis and Hadriana appear on coins minted here.

The town was Christianised early and became an archbishopric. An archbishop suffered martyrdom under Diocletian. No longer a residential see, it remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church under the name Claudiopolis in Honoriade.[6] A former titular see under the name of Claudiopolis in Bithynia was suppressed.[7]

Its site is occupied by the modern town of Bolu, Asiatic Turkey.[5][8]

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