Asia Minor

A peninsula of western Asia between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is generally conterminous with Asian Turkey and is usually considered synonymous with Anatolia.

Asia Minor

n 1. (Placename) the historical name for Anatolia 2. (Historical Terms) the historical name for Anatolia

A′sia Mi′nor

n. a peninsula in W Asia between the Black and Mediterranean seas, including most of Asian Turkey. Compare Anatolia.

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Asia Minor - a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of TurkeyAnatoliaBattle of Granicus River, Granicus - the battle in which Alexander won his first major victory against the Persians (334 BC)battle of Ipsus, Ipsus - a battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC); Lysimachus and Seleucus defeated Antigonus and Demetriusbattle of Issus, Issus - a battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius IIIBithynia - an ancient country in northwestern Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; was absorbed into the Roman Empire by the end of the 1st century BCCappadocia - an ancient country is eastern Asia MinorGalatia - an ancient country in central Asia MinorPhrygia - an ancient country in western and central Asia MinorPontus - an ancient region of northern Asia Minor on the Black Sea; it reached its height under Mithridates VI but was later incorporated into the Roman EmpireAeolia, Aeolis - an ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BCLycia - an ancient region on the coast of southwest Asia MinorLydia - an ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor; a powerful kingdom until conquered by the Persians in 546 BCEphesus - an ancient Greek city on the western shore of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; site of the Temple of Artemis; was a major trading center and played an important role in early ChristianityIlion, Ilium, Troy - an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan WarRepublic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923Ionia - region of western Asia Minor colonized by ancient GreeksAsia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizationsmalik - the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent; "maliks rule the hinterland of Afghanistan under the protection of warlords"

Translations

Малая Азия

Asia Minor

Asia Minor,

great peninsula, c.250,000 sq mi (647,500 sq km), extreme W Asia, generally coterminous with Asian Turkey, also called Anatolia. It is washed by the Black Sea in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the south, and the Aegean Sea in the west. The Black and Aegean seas are linked by the Sea of Marmara and the two straits of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. Near the southern coast of Asia Minor are the Taurus Mts.; the rest of the peninsula is occupied by the Anatolian plateau, which is crossed by numerous mountains interspersed with lakes. In ancient times most Eastern and Western civilizations intersected in Asia Minor, for it was connected with Mesopotamia by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and with Greece by the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. The Hittites established the first major civilization in Asia Minor about 1800 B.C. Beginning in the 8th cent. B.C. Greek colonies were established on the coast lands, and the Greeks thus came into contact with Lydia, Phrygia, and Troy. The conquest (6th cent. B.C.) of Asia Minor by the Persians led to the Persian Wars. Alexander the Great incorporated the region into his empire, and after his death it was divided into small states ruled by various Diadochi (rulers). It was reunified (2d cent. B.C.) by the Romans. After A.D. 395 the country was re-Hellenized and became part of the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine EmpireByzantine Empire,
successor state to the Roman Empire (see under Rome), also called Eastern Empire and East Roman Empire. It was named after Byzantium, which Emperor Constantine I rebuilt (A.D. 330) as Constantinople and made the capital of the entire Roman Empire.
..... Click the link for more information. . It was prosperous until the early part of the 6th cent. when it was successively invaded by the Persians (616–26), Arabs (668), Seljuk Turks (1061), and Mongols (1243). The Mongols obliterated almost all traces of Hellenic civilization. Asia Minor was then gradually (13th–15th cent.) conquered by the Ottoman Turks. It remained part of the Ottoman Empire until the establishment of the Republic of Turkey after World War I.

Asia Minor

a peninsula in western Asia, comprising the middle part of Turkey. Length, more than 1,000 km (west to east); width, 400-600 km. It is washed by the Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara, and Black seas and the straits of the Bosporus and Dardanelles. The relief is predominantly made up of plateaus and mountains, which form most of the Anatolian Plateau; there are narrow belts of lowlands along the seacoasts.

Asia Minor

noun

Synonyms for Asia Minor

noun a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey

Synonyms

Anatolia

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battle of Ipsus
Ipsus
battle of Issus
Issus
Bithynia
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Phrygia
Pontus
Aeolia
Aeolis
Lycia
Lydia
Ephesus
Ilion
Ilium
Troy
Republic of Turkey
Turkey
Ionia
Asia
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