Paphlagonia : mountainous region of Asia Minor, between Bithynia & Pontus on the Black Sea coast. In the Trojan War the Paphlagonians were allies of Troy.
... marched into Pisidia where he subdued any resistance which he encountered, and then made himself master of Phrigia.... After this Alexander marched northward and won over the people of Capadocia and Paphlagonia. He also learned of the death of Memnon, the general to whom Darius had entrusted the defence of the coast of Asia Minor, and who, if he had lived, was likely to have offered the most stubborn resistance ...
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