Thynias

THY´NIAS (Θυνίας), a small island in the Euxine at a distance of one mile from the coast of Thynia or Bithynia; its distance from the port of Rhoë was 20 stadia, and from Calpe 40. (Plin. Nat. 6.13; Arrian, Peripl. P. E. p. 13.) The island had only 7 stadia in circumference, and had at first been called Apollonia from a temple of Apollo which existed in it. (Plin., Arrian, ll. cc.;Apollon. 2.177, 675; Anon. Peripl. P. E. p. 3.) According to Ptolemy (Ptol. 5.1.15) it was also called Daphnusia, and obtained its name of Thynias from the Thyni, who inhabited the opposite coast. The island had a port and a naval station belonging to Heracleia (Scylax, p. 34; Arrian, l. c.); and Mela (2.7) is probably mistaken in believing that the island contained a town of the same name. (Comp. Strab. 12. p. 543, where it is called Thynia; Marcian, p. 69; Steph. B. s. v.; Orph. Argon. 717, where it bears the name Thyneis.) The modern name of the island is Kirpeh.

THY´NIAS (Mela 2.2.5; Plin. Nat. 4.11. s. 18; Θυνίας, Strabo 7. p. 319, 12. p. 541: Scymn. 727; Arrian. Per. P. Eux. p 24; Anon. Per. P. Eux. p. 15; Ptol. 3.11.4; Steph. B. s. v.), a promontory on the Thracian coast of the Euxine, N. of Salmydessus, which was probably at one time in the territories of the Thyni, although Strabo (7. p. 319) speaks of the district as belonging to the people of Apollonia. Pliny (l. c.) mentions a town of the same name, which in some maps is placed a little to the south of the promontory, on the site of the modern Inada or Iniada; but which, according to Dapper (de l'Arohip. p. 515), is still called Thinno.