Mount Kyminas ( el, Όρος Κύμινας) is the historical
Byzantine name of a mountain in
Bithynia
Bithynia (; Koine Greek: , ''Bithynía'') was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea. It bordered Mysia to the southwest, Pa ...
, in present-day
Bursa Province,
Turkey. Its exact location is uncertain, although it was likely located somewhere slightly north of the city of
Bursa
( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the ...
. Christian ascetics and monks lived on the mountain during the Byzantine period. By the Ottoman period, Christian monks were no longer living at Mount Kyminas.
Christian monks who lived on the mountain included
Athanasius the Athonite,
Michael Maleinos (who was the
abbot of the
lavra at Mount Kyminas),
and
Thomas Dephourkinos
Thomas may refer to:
People
* List of people with given name Thomas
* Thomas (name)
* Thomas (surname)
* Saint Thomas (disambiguation)
* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
* Thomas the Ap ...
.
References
Byzantine Anatolia
Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Asia
Geography of the Byzantine Empire
Kyminas
Landforms of Bursa Province
Kyminas
Geography of Bithynia
Byzantine monasteries in Turkey
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