Anatolia

[an-uh-toh-lee-uh]

noun

a vast plateau between the Black and the Mediterranean seas: in ancient usage, synonymous with the peninsula of Asia Minor; in modern usage, applied to Turkey in Asia.

Compare Asia Minor.

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Examples from the Web for anatolia

A good-looking woman, she maintained a no-nonsense approach on her pioneering digs in south-east Anatolia.
The Week in Death: The First Muslim Female Olympian Snubbed Adolf Hitler|The Telegraph|January 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His extensions in Anatolia by the absorption of Turkish Emirates or parts of them.
The Turkish Empire, its Growth and Decay|Lord Eversley
Of the coast of Anatolia, they possessed the entire circuit from Trebizond to the Syrian gates.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|Edward Gibbon
A Turkish soldier loves to sit over a plate of hot cinders and dream of his fields and goats on the far-away uplands of Anatolia.
The Secrets of a Kuttite|Edward O. Mousley

He had rounded off his boundaries in the north-west corner of Anatolia by annexing Mysia.
The Turkish Empire, its Growth and Decay|Lord Eversley
We dont even care who governs us now, said a Turk of position to the writer (then a prisoner in Turkish hands in Anatolia).
The Cradle of Mankind|W.A. Wigram

British Dictionary definitions for anatolia

Anatolia

noun

the Asian part of Turkey, occupying the peninsula between the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Aegean: consists of a plateau, largely mountainous, with salt lakes in the interiorHistorical name: Asia Minor

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Word Origin and History for anatolia

Anatolia

ancient name of Asia Minor, from Medieval Latin Anatolia, from Greek anatole "the east," originally "sunrise" (which of course happens in the east), literally "a rising above (the horizon)," from anatellein "to rise," from ana "up" (see ana-) + tellein "to accomplish, perform."