of or relating to Anatolia, its inhabitants, or their language.
of, relating to, or belonging to the Anatolian group or family of languages.
of or relating to Anatolia or its inhabitants
denoting, belonging to, or relating to an ancient family of languages related to the Indo-European family and including Hittite
this family of languages, sometimes regarded as a branch of Indo-European
a native or inhabitant of Anatolia
First recorded in 1580–90; Anatoli(a) + -an
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Andrew Crowley, 46, of Longwell Green, Gloucestershire, asked the auction house to value three Cycladic figures and an Anatolian stargazer statuette he had inherited from his grandfather.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
Athens emerged as the head of the Delian League, a confederacy of cities located along the Anatolian coast and on islands in the Aegean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
"Excitingly, the region between the North Aegean and the Anatolian mainland, may still hold valuable clues to early occupation despite the challenges posed by active geomorphological processes."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025
He lived on the Anatolian coast — now in Turkey but then a cradle of early Greek civilization — and was said to have acquired his unusual power by abandoning the gods.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
I didn’t have the resources at fourteen, didn’t know enough, hadn’t been to the Anatolian mountain the Greeks call Olympus and the Turks Uludag, just like the soft drink.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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