Asia Minor

noun

1. a peninsula in W Asia between the Black and Mediterranean seas, including most of Asiatic Turkey.

Asia Minor

noun

1. the historical name for Anatolia

Asia Minor

1. Peninsula in western Asia consisting of the Asian part of Turkey.

Example Sentences

Baron said that back in the sixth century BCE, there was a war that had been going on in Asia Minor for six years.

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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.

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The end product was known as Gaza and Ashkelon wine, after the ports through which it was exported to Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor.

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The Nathusius’ pipistrelle is found across Europe from the U.K. to Asia Minor.

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Born in Greece’s main port city of Piraeus on July 26, 1940, to parents who were refugees from Asia Minor, Voskopoulos was the youngest of 12 children and the only boy.

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