Roman double province (after Diocletian, 284-305, only Bithynia) with Nicomedia as its capital. In 74 BC the death of Nicomedes IV [2;7]; M. Iunius Iuncus, proconsul Asiae, is given the task of securing the kingdom as a Roman province; in the autumn of 74 the province of Bithynia is conferred upon the incumbent consul M. Aurelius Cotta and Asia and B. established as a unitary customs zone (SEG 39, 1180 = AE 1989, 681 [1;4]). The 3rd Mithridatic war began in early 73 …
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Strobel, Karl (Klagenfurt) and
Makris, Georgios (Bochum),
“Bithynia et Pontus”, in:
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