The Bithyni (; el, Βιθυνοί) were a
Thracian
The Thracians (; grc, Θρᾷκες ''Thrāikes''; la, Thraci) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in ancient history.. "The Thracians were an Indo-European people who occupied ...
tribe who, along with the
Thyni
The Thyni ( el, Θυνοί) were a Thracian tribe that lived in south-eastern Thrace. The Thyni were closely related to the Bithynians, with whom they often exchanged troops and royal marriages, later a section of the Thyni, along with the Bithyni ...
, migrated to
Anatolia
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.
Herodotus
Herodotus ( ; grc, , }; BC) was an ancient Greek historian and geographer
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,
Xenophon
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and
Strabo all assert that the Bithyni and Thyni settled together in what would be known as
Bithynia and
Thynia
In the ancient world, Thynia (, el, Θυνία) was a region of Europe along the northern coast of the Propontis, opposite Bithynia on the Asian side.W.H.Race, ''Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica'', Loeb Classical Library (2008), introductory maps ...
. According to Herodotus, the Bithynian Thracians originally lived along the
Strymon river
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, and were known as Strymonians.
Ancient tribes in Thrace
Bithynia
Ancient peoples of Anatolia
Thracian tribes
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