Nymphaeum or Nymphaion () was a town on the eastern coast of

ancient Bithynia Bithynia (; ) was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea. It bordered Mysia to the southwest, Paphlagonia to the northeast a ...

located on the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bound ...

, at a distance of 30 stadia west of the mouth of the Oxines, or 45 stadia from Tyndaridae.Anon. ''Periplus P. E.'', p. 4. Its site is unlocated.

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Populated places in Bithynia Former populated places in Turkey Lost ancient cities and towns {{AncientBithynia-geo-stub