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Tium
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Tium () was an ancient settlement, also known as Filyos (), on the south coast of the Black Sea at the mouth of the river Billaeus in present-day Turkey. Ancient writers variously assigned it to ancient Paphlagonia or Bithynia.
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- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Ereğli
- Location
- Bithynia
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- time period
- classical antiquity
- located in/on physical feature
- Black Sea Region
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Tium () was an ancient settlement, also known as Filyos (), on the south coast of the Black Sea at the mouth of the river Billaeus in present-day Turkey. Ancient writers variously assigned it to ancient Paphlagonia or Bithynia.
Apart from Tium, Latinized forms of the name are Teium, Tieium and Tius, corresponding to the Greek names Τεῖον (Teion), Τιεῖον (Tieion), Τῖον (Tion) and Τῖος (Tios).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.