Bithunia (Bithynia)

Mentioned just twice in the New Testament (Acts 16:7; 1 Pet. 1:1), “Bithynia” was a province of Asia Minor which was evangelized in the first century. “According to Acts 16:7, Paul and Timothy seek in vain to go from Mysia to Bithynia; 1 Pet. 1:1 assumes a Christian church in Bithynia” (Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament, 1:218).