Paphlagonia

American  

[paf-luh-goh-nee-uh, -gohn-yuh] / ˌpæf ləˈgoʊ ni ə, -ˈgoʊn yə /

noun

1. an ancient country and Roman province in N Asia Minor, on the S coast of the Black Sea.

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Paphlagonia British  

/ ˌpæfləˈɡəʊnɪə /

noun

1. an ancient country and Roman province in N Asia Minor, on the Black Sea

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Example Sentences

He had vassal kings attending, Bocchus of Libya, Tarcondemus of the Upper Cilicia, Archelaus of Cappadocia, Philadelphus of Paphlagonia, Mithridates of Commagene, and Sadalas of Thrace; all these were with him in person.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

And the apples which grow at Gangra, a city of Paphlagonia, are not much inferior to them.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Macedonius was informed, that a large district of Paphlagonia was almost entirely inhabited by those sectaries.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Milman, Henry Hart

Does Mithridates then withhold Paphlagonia? and as to the ships, deny that article?

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

Lucian’s history of the rise of the new oracle in Paphlagonia is not, perhaps, free from some suspicion of personal antipathy to the founder of it.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel