How To Use Asia minor In A Sentence
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Herodotus was born a Persian subject sometime between 490 and 484 B.C. in Halicarnassus, in southwestern Asia Minor.
A Historian For Our Time
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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An town of Asia Minor on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont in modern day Turkey .
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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.
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The potter's wheel was invented in Asia Minor around 6500 BC.
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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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Tens of thousands of Turkmen tribesmen swarmed across Asia Minor, and within a decade the empire had lost most of its grain and more than half its manpower.
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Thraco-Phrygian peoples who had overrun the Balkans, occupied Thrace and Macedonia, and crossed into Asia Minor.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
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Eastern Asia Minor, that is Cappadocia, Pontus and Armenia, he left alone, and its contingents would still be arrayed on the Persian side in both the great battles to come.
The Ancient East
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During the middle third the fleet could hug the coast and put in to revictual in places like Croton and Tarentum and Brundisium, where the tale would be that they were going to put down trouble in Asia Minor — a tale the troops themselves had been given to believe.
The Grass Crown
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Diogenes of Oenoanda propagated Epicurean doctrines in Asia Minor, inscribing them on the wall of a Stoa in his home town.
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BALIKISRI (_Balukiser_), a town of Asia Minor, capital of the Karasi sanjak in the vilayet of Brusa, altitude 575 ft., situated on rising ground above
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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Asia minor(A peninsula of western Asia between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is generally coterminous with Asian Turkey and is usually considered synonymous with Anatolia.
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With the loss of the harbor, traders working the coast of Asia Minor moved elsewhere, which pretty much put Ephesus out of business.
Bob Schulman: Ephesus Survives Swords, Scimitars and Silt
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Asia Minor, or Anatolia, is a peninsula stretching westward from the Armenian mountains to the Aegean Sea, with the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean to the south.
7. Asia Minor, c. 3000-333 B.C.E
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The principles which he lays down and justifies in his answers to the doubts of the religious of Asia Minor, that is in what are called the shorter and longer rules, inform and guide the religious of the present day.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Christian peoples scattered throughout Asia Minor and along the Bosporus until this barbarous Ottoman Government is swept from the face of the earth.
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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Anatolia, the main Turkish landmass that historically has been known as Asia Minor, literally translates as "full of mothers".
Zeyno Baran: Let the Truth Shine
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Since the first conquests of the caliphs, the establishment of the Turks in Anatolia or Asia Minor was the most deplorable loss which the church and empire had sustained.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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He ran a relentless crusade against the poison antidote formulated by Mithridates, the King of Pontus, Asia Minor, in the first century BC.
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As if that wasn't enough already, some hick agricultural god called Attis blundered his way from Asia Minor into our seasonal holidays.
Clay Farris Naff: Keep Saturn in Saturnalia!
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Such were, apparently, the synods held in Asia Minor at Iconium and Synnada in the third century, concerning the re-baptism of heretics; such were, certainly, the councils held later in the northern part of Latin
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Valleys aggraded with fine waste form well-nigh level plains over which streams wind from side to side of a direct course in symmetric bends known as meanders, from the name of a winding river of Asia Minor.
The Elements of Geology
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The earliest stories of India in the West were brought back by a sailor named Scylax from Caria in Asia Minor.
Alexander the Great
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The name Druid, as well as that of the centre of worship of the Gauls of Asia Minor,
Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times
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But just as tobacco once spread from Europe to the Ottoman Empire (thanks to “English infidels,” wrote one Turkish historian), another curse has blown eastward from the civilized West: the smoking ban, due to arrive in Asia Minor on July 19.
Turkish Smoke-Out
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Other and more reliable traditions, however, attribute to them a knowledge of agriculture, and some little acquaintance with navigation; while there is a strong probability that they were the authors of those huge structures commonly called Cyclopean, remains of which are still visible in many parts of Greece and Italy, and on the western coast of Asia Minor.
Mosaics of Grecian History
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Given huge portions of Asia Minor by the Treaty of Sevres, the Greeks made a terrible miscalculation, thinking they could recapture more territory and even Constantinople.
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From the outset he regarded Asia Minor as liberated territory only in so far as he displaced the Persians, and he announced the fact of possession by imposing his own satraps upon the erstwhile Persian provinces.
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The world's most expensive spice is the dried stigmas of the saffron crocus, which is native to Asia Minor.
Assyrian International News Agency
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The same arrangement was carried to colonial cities and refoundations from Asia Minor.
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-- The botany of Syria and Palestine differs but little from that of Asia Minor, which is one of the most rich and varied on the globe.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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the potter's wheel was invented in Asia Minor around 6500 BC
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(land of Lycus) is the name of that southwestern region of the peninsula of Asia Minor which is immediately opposite the island of Rhodes.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Judging from what we know of the northern worshippers of the hammer god in later times, it would appear that when they were referred to as the Hatti or Khatti, the tribe of that name was the dominating power in Asia Minor and north Syria.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
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Asia Minor and among the Greeks generally he was called archimandrite
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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After his victory, Alexander rolled through Asia Minor, detouring to Gordium to meet up with his general Parmenio.
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Even Asia Minor, that is to say the uplands of Anatolia, is beginning to reveal herself to explorers although almost all the great sanctuaries, Pessinus, the two Comanas,
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
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He defeated the Persian Army in Asia Minor at Granicus, the Battle of Granicus, in 334.
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The Athenians believed that the Ionians had originated in Athens and had spread from there by an early colonization to what came to be called Ionia on the central coast of Asia Minor; there they founded and formed a loose league of cities.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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The rich provinces of Asia Minor were plundered by the invaders.
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Burnside, at Cincinnati, have rivalled in insolence, brutality, and lawlessness any Dey of Algiers or Pacha of Asia Minor that was ever appointed by the most ruthless Sultan that ever reigned in
London: Saturday, September 19, 1863
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The Ionian cities in Asia Minor and several of the island cities (Samos, Lesbos, and Chios) revolted from the Persians.
C. The Rise of the Athenian Empire
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He put down rebellions and sent his Athenian armies to colonize other areas of Asia Minor.
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Situated on the road from Asia Minor to India, it preserves the traces of ancient cultures and religions including Zoroastrianism , Buddhism and Islam.
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The overall flavour is Ionic, the dialect spoken on Euboea, other islands of the eastern Aegean such as Chios, and on the mainland of Asia Minor opposite them.
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The Ionians invaded the western coast of Asia Minor, which was subsequently called Ionia, taking over the existing cities of Colophon, Miletus, Smyrna, Myus, Priene, Ephesus, Phocaea, and others.
C. The Aeolian and Ionian Migrations and the Greek Renaissance
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Hepding (op. cit., 70 f.), it cannot be doubted that the taurobolium was already practised in Asia Minor, in the cult of the Ma-Bellona.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
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And all Asia the less Asia Minor is y cleped Turkye.
Archive 2007-11-01
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As Lucian goes on to relate, the fraudster set himself up in Asia Minor as an oracle—issuing auguries through a hand puppet—and apparently took in everyone from the emperor on down.
Five Best: Religious Cults In Antiquity
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Even Asia Minor, that is to say the uplands of Anatolia, is beginning to reveal herself to explorers although almost all the great sanctuaries, Pessinus, the two Comanas,
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
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Between the Cyclades and Asia Minor lie the Sporades, which islands, as the name implies, are sown irregularly over that portion of the Aegean.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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The first major city that the armies of the First Crusade sieged on their way to Jerusalem was Nicaea now Iznik in northwest Asia Minor.
How to intimidate your enemies, circa 1097
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Anatolia, the main Turkish landmass that historically has been known as Asia Minor, literally translates as "full of mothers".
Zeyno Baran: Let the Truth Shine
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A town on the western coast of Asia Minor, where Paul "tarried" when on his way from Assos to Miletus, on his third missionary journey (Acts 20: 15).
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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The caprifig, whose syconia are generally considered to be inedible, is the wild fig of Asia Minor.
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A native of Myrina in Asia Minor, where his father was a rhetor, he was educated at Alexandria and Constantinople, where he later practised law, a profession about whose conditions he complains in his Histories.
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More - over, the Greek fragments of the Magusean works ascribed to Zoroaster, Ostanes, and others, though probably composed outside of Iran in Asia Minor and therefore reflecting a westernized version of Zoroastri - anism, demonstrate a knowledge of some of the tech - niques of late Babylonian genethlialogy.
ASTROLOGY
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The letter of 1 Peter is addressed to the exiled Jews of the “Diaspora” Jews living out of the Land of Israel in the provinces of Asia Minor, namely Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.
The Jesus Dynasty
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His victorious army reclaimed the Greek-occupied areas in Asia Minor in 1922.
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The rich provinces of Asia Minor were plundered by the invaders.
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The major contributor of modern goats is the Bezoar goat which is distributed from the mountains of Asia Minor across the Middle East to Sind
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Greek, variously influenced from Athens on one side, Byzantium on the other: then, across the Ægean, you have the great country absurdly called Asia Minor, (for we might just as well call Greece, Europe Minor, or Cornwall, England Minor,) but which is properly to be remembered as
Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
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Although in use in Asia Minor, Italy, [v. 03 p. 0388] Sicily, and Greece, it is evident that the barbiton never won for itself a place in the affections of the Greeks of Hellas; it was regarded as a barbarian instrument affected by those only whose tastes in matters of art were unorthodox.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Myths about him relate how with this irregular army of votaries he conquers Asia Minor and India, subduing all who try to resist him when he attacks them with his madness.
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The Sophists were a motley bunch - some hailed from the Athenian polis or other city-states, but the majority came from Ionia, in Asia Minor.
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In Asia Minor, they quarreled among themselves, murdered the Christian inhabitants and scored no success against the Turks.
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Brundisium was the gateway to Italy for travelers from Greece and Asia Minor.
Caesars’ Wives
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As everywhere in the Roman empire, so in Asia Minor it was the numerous Jewries in which the Christian religion found its first aderents.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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His last great defeat came at sea, near Pamphylia in Asia Minor, where Carthaginian ships fought with the Romans against him (as Miles says "we can only imagine his shock and sorrow".)
A story of Hannibal offers a lesson to the modern world
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A German evangelical theologian, Axenfeld was born in Smyrna in Asia Minor, the son of a Prussian consulate pastor.
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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King Darius managed to build up the Persian Empire and now controlled Asia Minor, including Greek poleis on the west coast.
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He points out that the process of caprification, as it is called, that is, the artificial fertilisation of the cultivated fig-trees by hanging strings of wild figs among the boughs, takes place in Greece and Asia Minor in June about a month after the date of the
The Golden Bough
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The first major city that the armies of the First Crusade sieged on their way to Jerusalem was Nicaea (now Iznik) in northwest Asia Minor.
Archive 2009-05-01
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There is another in France, Willis; but the Troy I mean is, or rather was, in Asia Minor, capital of Lesser Phrygia, sometimes called Ilion, its citadel bearing the name of Pergamos.
Willis the Pilot
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The first writer to use the term Asia Minor is the Christian Orosius
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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That the mission became universal was due to the conversion and work of a Pharisaic Jew from Asia Minor, Paul.
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The bitterlings comprise about 5 species in Europe, Asia Minor, the Caspian Sea basin, China, Japan and Korea with 1 species in Iran.
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The part that extends into Asia is known as Anatolia, and sometimes referred to as Asia Minor.
Ronen Paldi: 10 Things You May Not Have Known About Turkey
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Ecbatana was built by a "Manda" prince; Asia Minor was infested by the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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Sehna and Saraband -- nothing but Moresque and pure Persian -- and one agedly perfect gem of Asia Minor, and one Tekke, so old and flawless that only the pigeon-blood fire remained under the violet bloom ....
The Firing Line
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Patterns of diversity of beech in Europe are not complicated by the existence of interfertile species, except for the presence of an allopatric related beech species in Asia minor.
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When Pliny the younger was proprætor of the province of Pontica in Asia Minor, he wrote to ask the Emperor what to do about the Christians, telling him what he had been able to find out about them from two slave girls who had been tortured; namely, that they were wont to meet together at night or early morning, to sing together, and eat what he called a harmless social meal.
Young Folks' History of Rome
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The most representative people of this class were the "Hatti" of Asia Minor, who were of Alpine or Armenoid stock.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
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Hatshepsut, a woman of royal blood, ruled as pharaoh during this period, as did Tutankhamun and the long-lived Rameses the Great, famous for the colossal rock-cut statues he built at Abu Simbel as well as his war against the Hittites of Asia Minor.
Alexander the Great
