Ionia

American  

[ahy-oh-nee-uh] / aɪˈoʊ ni ə /

noun

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

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Ionia British  

/ aɪˈəʊnɪə /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 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

Jones is from the Four Corners region in southern Utah, but she had been staying in Ionia County last summer.

From Washington Times • Dec. 13, 2020

When the Greek cities of Ionia rose up against Persian rule, Darius vowed to make an example not just of them, but of the Greek poleis that had aided them, including Athens.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

I wrote down all the names of all the cities I’d have to pass through to get there, Owosso, Ovid, St. John’s, Ionia and Lowell, and put the paper in my pocket.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis