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Thynias is a Roman Catholic titular see in Bithynia Prima. It is a suffragan of Nicomedia. It is also one of the names of an island in the Black Sea,[1] where Jason and the Argonauts rested after passing through the Clashing Rocks.[2]


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  1.  "Thynias". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Thynias. 
  2. W.H. Race, Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica, Loeb Classical Library, page 167-68 (Book 2, 669-719)

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