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

The little hairy man vanished behind an oak tree; Tristran heard a few grunts, and then his new friend reappeared, saying, "There. I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of one thing, that nothing worse would happen to him all day. 'Course they made him eat a bowlful of hairy centipedes before they hung him, so maybe that claim was a bit presumptive."

From Literature

Thou canst return to Paphlagonia!

From Project Gutenberg

But, being human, notwithstanding his court laureates, he put off the disagreeable duty from day to day, and might have died without an heir, if the envoys from Paphlagonia had not aroused him to the necessity of a decision.

From Project Gutenberg

For they announced that the Princess of Paphlagonia, being suddenly orphaned, would be sent to him in the twelfth moon that she might marry his eldest son as covenanted by ancient treaty.

From Project Gutenberg

Soon after, it being the twelfth moon, the King set forward with a little retinue to meet the Princess of Paphlagonia, whose coming had got abroad; but returned two days later with the news that the Princess was confined to her room, and would not arrive in the city till next year.

From Project Gutenberg