Bithyni
Template:Short description The Bithyni (Template:IPAc-en; Template:Langx; Template:Langx) were a Thracian tribe who lived in Bithynia.
HistoryEdit
The Bithyni originally lived in the area of the lower Strymon river,Template:Sfn due to which the ancient Greeks claimed that they were originally called the Strymoni (Template:Langx; Template:Langx).Template:Sfn
Around Template:C., the Paeonians displaced the Bithynians in the Strymon valley, after which they Bithyni migrated eastwards, and crossed the Thracian Bosporus and settled in northwestern Anatolia, where they assimilated the Phrygians and the Bebryces, with the region becoming known as Bithynia after them.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn The Dolonci tribe, who lived in the Thracian Chersonese and whom Greek mythology claimed were related to the Bithyni,Template:Sfn might have been remnants of the Bithyni who were left behind on the European side of the Thracian Bosporus.Template:Sfn
By the mid-6th century BC, the Bithyni had come under the rule of the Lydian empire,Template:Sfn after which it became part of the Persian Achaemenid Empire when Cyrus II annexed Lydia.Template:Sfn
CultureEdit
The Bithyni used the round [[Peltast#Pelte shield|Template:Transliteration]] shield in warfare.Template:Sfn