Anatolia
[an-uh-toh-lee-uh]
- 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.
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Examples from the Web for anatolia
Contemporary Examples
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 HitlerThe Telegraph
January 26, 2014
Historical Examples
You know the coast of Anatolia probably better than anyone else here.
At Aboukir and AcreGeorge Alfred Henty
Turkish rugs are made almost wholly in Asia Minor or Anatolia.
Commercial GeographyJacques W. Redway
The Turks of Anatolia had many valuable qualities as soldiers.
The Turkish Empire, its Growth and DecayLord Eversley
He was an old peasant from Anatolia, or I would not have dared this.
The Secrets of a KuttiteEdward O. Mousley
The one was established in China, the other in Syria and in Anatolia.
Origin of Cultivated PlantsAlphonse De Candolle
Anatolia
- 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."
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