Mysia (region in Bythinia)

region · 750 BC – 330 BC

According to some ancient authors, the Mysi (a Thracian people who migrated into Asia Minor) originally inhabited Bithynia before moving further south and west, whence this regional name that the Barrington Atlas places between the Askania Limne (modern Lake Iznik in Turkey) and the Propontis.

Coordinates

40.57164, 29.48024

Also known as

Mysia

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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