Mysia

Ancient district of northwestern Asia Minor containing the Bronze-Age city of Troy.

The principal towns of Mysia were Pergamum, Lampsacus, Abydos, and Assos. In the 6th century BC Mysia was subject to the Lydian empire of Croesus, and then became subject to Persia, then to Alexander the Great, and then to the Seleucids. It became part of the kingdom of Pergamum 190 BC and was included, with the rest of Pergamum, in the Roman province of Asia 133 BC.