Timonitis
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Timonitis (Ancient Greek: Τιμωνῖτις) was a district in the interior of ancient Paphlagonia, near the borders of Bithynia.[1][2] Pliny the Elder mentions its inhabitants under the name of Timoniacenses.[3] Stephanus of Byzantium reports a fort of Paphlagonia named Timonium or Timonion (Τιμώνιον), from which the district no doubt derived its name.
Modern scholars take the region of Mengen, Bolu, Asiatic Turkey to be its modern location.[4]
References
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xii. p. 562. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.1.12.
- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 5.42.
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 86, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Timonitis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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