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Asia Minor

NOUN
  1. a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey

How To Use Asia Minor In A Sentence

  • Herodotus was born a Persian subject sometime between 490 and 484 B.C. in Halicarnassus, in southwestern Asia Minor. A Historian For Our Time
  • Hecataeus had acted as adviser in the so-called Ionian rebellion, when in 500 B.C. the Greeks of Asia Minor rose up against the Persians, who, about half a century earlier, had subjected them to their rule. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • He was a powerful monarch, -- so powerful that the Greeks, who had built cities all along the coast of Asia Minor, in the country called Ionia, never spoke of him except as "The Great King. The Story of the Greeks
  • Not only does it cover the levant, Asia minor and southern Europe but it is a fascinating cultural trek that covers many cultures and languages Wandering Neanderthals
  • Information is a mere click away on the net and if you were honestly knowlegeable in Hurrian than you'd have surely read Woodard, The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor 2008, p.94 which gives a clear summary of the Hurrian declensional system. Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
  • We have no example of this in Rome, but at Teos in Asia Minor there is one which is hexastyle, dedicated to Father Bacchus. The Ten Books on Architecture
  • An town of Asia Minor on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont in modern day Turkey .
  • During the 12th and 11th centuries BCE, Thracians settled not only on the peninsular mainland and the Mediterranean islands, but also moved south-eastwards into Asia Minor.
  • The potter's wheel was invented in Asia Minor around 6500 BC.
  • Galen takes exception at mutton, but without question he means that rammy mutton, which is in Turkey and Asia Minor, which have those great fleshy tails, of forty-eight pounds weight, as Vertomannus witnesseth, navig. lib. Anatomy of Melancholy
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