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The Bithyni (; ; ) were a Thracians tribe who lived in Bithynia.
Around , the Paeonians displaced the Bithynians in the Strymon valley, after which they Bithyni migrated eastwards, and crossed the Bosporus and settled in northwestern Anatolia, where they assimilated the Phrygians and the Bebryces, with the region becoming known as Bithynia after them. The Dolonci tribe, who lived in the Gallipoli and whom Greek mythology claimed were related to the Bithyni, might have been remnants of the Bithyni who were left behind on the European side of the Thracian Bosporus.
By the mid-6th century BC, the Bithyni had come under the rule of the Lydia, after which it became part of the Persian Achaemenid Empire when Cyrus II annexed Lydia.
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