Ionia

American

[ahy-oh-nee-uh] / aɪˈoʊ ni ə /

noun

an ancient region on the W coast of Asia Minor and on adjacent islands in the Aegean: colonized by the ancient Greeks.

Ionia British

/ aɪˈəʊnɪə /

noun

an ancient region of W central Asia Minor, including adjacent Aegean islands: colonized by Greeks in about 1100 _bc

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Department spokesperson Jennifer Holton said Tuesday that state law prohibits the department from disclosing the type of poultry at the facility in Ionia.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024

With regard to Persia, Sparta reneged on its promise to restore the Greek city-states in Ionia to Persian control.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Over the next several decades, allied forces of the Delian League liberated the Greek city-states of Ionia from Persian rule and supported rebellions against Persia in Cyprus and Egypt.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Joe Farrington ran for Congress as a “working class Republican” and owns a bar in Lyons, Michigan, about 50 miles east of Grand Rapids, in Ionia County, where Trump won nearly two-thirds of the vote.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2021

But why Ionia, why in these unassuming and pastoral landscapes, these remote islands and inlets of the Eastern Mediterranean?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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