Thynias

{{Short description|Town of ancient Thrace}}

{{for|the island|Thynias (island)}}

Thynias ({{langx|grc|Θυνιάς}}) was a town of ancient Thrace on the coast of the Pontus Euxinus on a promontory of the same name (modern İğneada Burnu),{{Cite DARE|43709}} mentioned by numerous ancient authors.{{Cite Mela|2.2.5}}{{Cite Pliny|4.11.18}}{{Cite Strabo|vii. p.319, xii. p. 541}}Scymn. 727; Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, p 24; Anon. Per. P. Eux. p. 15; {{Cite Ptolemy|3.11.4}}{{Cite Stephanus|s.v.}} It was located north of Salmydessus, which was probably at one time in the territories of the Thyni, although Strabo speaks of the district as belonging to the people of Apollonia.{{Cite Strabo|vii. p. 319}} According to Pliny the Elder, the town was placed a little to the south of the promontory.

Its site is located near İğneada in European Turkey.{{Cite Barrington|52}}{{Cite DARE|31445}}