Listed 5 sub titles with search on: Homeric world for destination: "VITHYNIA Ancient country TURKEY".
They lived in Asia Minor and were allies of the Trojans (Il. 10.429, 20.329).
The name of peoples both in Greece and Asia, who had disappeared at later times. The Caucones in Asia Minor are mentioned by Homer as allies of the Trojans, and are placed in Bithynia and Paphlagonia by the geographers.
A river in Bithynia (Il. 3.187, 16.719).
(Sangarios), Sangaris (Sangaris), or Sagaris (Sagaris). Now Sakariyeh. The largest river of Asia Minor after the Halys; it had its source in a mountain called Adoreus, near the little town of Sangia, on the borders of Galatia and Phrygia, whence it flowed first north through Galatia, then west and northwest through the northeastern part of Phrygia, and then north through Bithynia, of which it originally formed the eastern boundary. It fell at last into the Euxine, about half way between the Bosporus and Heraclea.
Sangarius: Perseus Encyclopedia
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