Paphlagonia

Paphlagonia, anciently a province of Asia Minor, extending along the southern shores of the Black Sea, from the Halys on the east to the Parthenius on the west (which separates it from Bithynia), and inland on the south to Galatia. Its limits, however, were somewhat different at different times, and it successively belonged to Lydia, Persia, and Rome. Its capital was Sinope. The Paphlagonians are supposed to have been of Syrian or Semitic origin, like the Cappadocians.