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 • Nov. 21, 2025

“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 • Oct. 27, 2025

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 • Apr. 5, 2024

In 1354, his troops established a base on the European peninsula of Gallipoli, on the northern side of the Dardanelles, one of the straits that separate Asia Minor from Europe.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

The crisis this time was occasioned by the death of the Seleucid king Antiochus II, in Asia Minor.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro