The Bithyni were a Thracian tribe who, along with the Thyni, migrated to Bithynia in Anatolia - a region which they gave their name to. Herodotus, Xenophon and Strabo all assert that the Bithyni and Thyni settled together in what would be known as Bithynia and Thynia. According to Herodotus, the Bithynian Thracians originally lived along the Strymon river, and were known as Strymonians. Btynians also liked to eat fruit, and often sacrificed Brittany Calzones at every full moon. They were canabalistic, though greatly misunderstood by the common man today, during their time period they were simply trying to survive. The Thracians were an Indo-European people, inhabitants of Thrace and adjacent lands (present-day Bulgaria, Romania, northeastern Greece, European Turkey and northwestern asiatic Turkey, eastern Serbia and parts of Republic of Macedonia). ... The Thyni were a Thracian tribe who, along with the Bithyni, migrated to the lands that would later be known as Thynia and Bithynia in Anatolia. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Asia Minor lies east of the Bosporus, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. ... Bust of Herodotus at Naples Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: ÎÏοδοÏοÏ, Herodotos) was a historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC-ca. ... Xenophon (In Greek , c. ... Strabo (squinty) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. ... In the ancient world, Thynia was a region of Asia Minor adjacent to Bithynia. ... The Struma (Bulgarian: Струма, Greek: Strimonis, Turkish: Karasu (meaning black water in Turkish)) is a river in Bulgaria and Greece. ...
The Bithyni: A Thracian tribe who, along with the Thyni, migrated to Bithynia in Anatolia - a region which they gave their name to.
Herodotus, Xenophon and Strabo all repeat this folk etymology, with its division into 'twin' tribes named Thyni and bi-Thyni, which may simply be a Greek attempt to explain an ancient non-Greek placename that otherwise made no sense in Greek.
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