Asia Minor

American  

noun

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

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Asia Minor British  

noun

1. the historical name for Anatolia

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Asia Minor Cultural  

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

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Example Sentences

Herodotus was an anthropological Autolycus, a spinner of yarns from Halicarnassus, a Greek colony in Asia Minor.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The first ‘renaissance’ of European history,” Mr. Roeck observes, “was the Second Sophistic, which began in Asia Minor and lasted from about 60 to 230 AD.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Salon

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.

From Seattle Times

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.

From BBC