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

That was the case when parts of Greece and Asia Minor rebelled and rallied around King Mithridates of Pontus.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

For the first time in their lives the Greeks of Asia Minor were out from under Turkish rule.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides