Asia Minor
Americannoun
noun
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Herodotus was an anthropological Autolycus, a spinner of yarns from Halicarnassus, a Greek colony in Asia Minor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
“The first ‘renaissance’ of European history,” Mr. Roeck observes, “was the Second Sophistic, which began in Asia Minor and lasted from about 60 to 230 AD.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
Baron said that back in the sixth century BCE, there was a war that had been going on in Asia Minor for six years.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024
The tension was exacerbated by the arrival, after 1922, of ethnic Greeks fleeing Asia Minor following Greece’s defeat in a three-year war with Turkey.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2023
Greece, Asia Minor, Mount Olympus, what did they have to do with me?
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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