Oxinas or Oxines () 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 ...
, probably near the mouth of the
river of the same name.
Its site is tentatively located at
Oksina,
Asiatic Turkey.
References
Populated places in Bithynia
Former populated places in Turkey
History of Zonguldak Province
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