Ionia

American

[ahy-oh-nee-uh] / aɪˈoʊ ni ə /

noun

an ancient region on the W coast of Asia Minor and on adjacent islands in the Aegean: colonized by the ancient Greeks.

Ionia British

/ aɪˈəʊnɪə /

noun

an ancient region of W central Asia Minor, including adjacent Aegean islands: colonized by Greeks in about 1100 _bc

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Ionia County Prosecutor Kyle Butler said Thursday that no warrant request had been filed with his office.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2022

The firearm allegedly used in the incident has been recovered and the immediate parties interviewed, but the investigation is ongoing and no warrant request has been submitted, according to Ionia County prosecuting attorney Kyle Butler.

From Washington Times • Sep. 27, 2022

Joe Farrington ran for Congress as a “working class Republican” and owns a bar in Lyons, Michigan, about 50 miles east of Grand Rapids, in Ionia County, where Trump won nearly two-thirds of the vote.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2021

The latter then led an invasion of Ionia that defeated the Persian army.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea.'

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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