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Hadrian has come into his wisdom only after manifold errors and tragic mistakes; not least among the latter, contriving, through thoughtlessness, in the death of his great love, the Bithynian youth Antinous.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2010

The Arcadian division, departing first, in vessels from Herakleia, landed at Kalpê; an untenanted promontory of the Bithynian or Asiatic Thrace, midway between Herakleia and Byzantium.

From The Two Great Retreats of History by Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry)

What joy to find that Thynia, and that plain Bithynian gone, and see thee safe again!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

Before it were the Bithynian mountains, with their passes protected by forts, and garrisoned by local militia, till the day when they were so perversely stripped of their defenders by the action of Michael Paleologus.

From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick

So he forced the reluctant Bithynian king to declare war, and to ravage with an army the country round Amastris while his fleet shut up the Bosporus.

From The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History by Beesley, A.H.