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As part of the Roman Empire, Bithynia et Pontus was one among many provinces, and the Bithynian cities with which we are primarily concerned in this book were three among hundreds of Roman cities. Any study of urban life in Roman Bithynia will naturally base itself on sources related to Bithynia itself or to Roman Asia Minor, but to interpret them properly, one needs to include evidence from all over the Empire, and to draw on the analogy of other cities and other provinces.