Asia Minor

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geographical region historical region

Asia Minor is a historical region in western Anatolia, corresponding largely to modern-day Turkey, that served as a crossroads of ancient Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern civilizations.

Aliases (9)

Anatolia ×13
Aegean region ×2
Cilicia ×2
Aegean region (uncertain) ×1
Asia Minor (attributed, not clearly attested) ×1
Asia Minor Peninsula ×1
Asia Minor by Mytilini Strait ×1
Western Anatolia ×1
western Anatolia ×1

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical region → historical region →
approximateArea	about 750,000 square kilometers →
borderedBy	Aegean Sea → Black Sea → Mediterranean Sea → Sea of Marmara →
containedCity	Antioch → Byzantium → Ephesus → Iconium → Miletus → Nicaea → Pergamon → Smyrna → Troy →
containedRegion	Bithynia → Cappadocia → Caria → Galatia → Ionia → Lycia → Lydia → Pamphylia → Phrygia → Pontus →
historicalNameOf	Anatolia →
hosted	Seven Churches of Asia →
knownAs	Anatolia → Asia Minor Peninsula →
languageInHistory	Armenian → Greek → Hittite → Latin → Luwian → Turkish →
locatedIn	Anatolia → Western Anatolia →
locatedOn	continent of Asia →
modernCountryContains	Turkey →
partOf	modern Turkey →
separatedBy	Bosporus → Dardanelles → Sea of Marmara →
separatedFrom	Balkans → Europe →
wasConqueredBy	Achaemenid Empire → Alexander the Great → Ottoman Empire → Seljuk Turks →
wasCoreTerritoryOf	Byzantine Empire →
wasCrossroadsOf	Byzantine civilization → Greek civilization → Islamic civilization → Near Eastern civilizations → Roman civilization →
wasImportantFor	spread of Christianity → trade routes between Europe and Asia →
wasProvinceOf	Byzantine Empire → Roman Empire →

Referenced by (117)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Asia Minor ("Anatolia") → Asia Minor ("Western Anatolia") → Battle of the Granicus → Bithynia → Caria → Chalcedon → Clazomenae → Comana Pontica → Ephesus → Hittite Empire → Iconium → Ionia ("western Anatolia") → Ionian school → Lampsacus → Nicomedia → Pamphylia → Pergamon → Perge → Phrygia → Roman roads → Selinus in Cilicia → Tarsus → church in Smyrna → church in Thyatira →	locatedIn
Anatolian languages ("Anatolia") → Anatolian languages → Bishop of Sasima → Caesarea in Cappadocia → Diwani script ("Anatolia") → Hittite (Nesite) → Ionian Greek → Noetus of Smyrna → Sidetic → Thales of Miletus →	region
Anaxagoras → Apostle Paul ("Cilicia") → Cleanthes of Assos → Diogenes of Sinope → Epictetus → Herodotus → Irenaeus of Lyons → Saint Helena of Constantinople →	birthPlace
Asian campaign → Byzantine Iconoclasm → Constantinian civil war → Corinthian War → Decian persecution → Greco-Persian Wars →	location
Ionia → Izmir ("Anatolia") → Lycia → Pontus →	partOf
Aeolic Greek → Palaic → Proto-Greek ("Aegean region") →	spokenIn
Polycarp of Smyrna → Praxeas →	associatedWith
Anacreon → Cassius Dio →	birthRegion
Asia ("Asia Minor (attributed, not clearly attested)") → Dionysus →	cultCenter
Trajan → Xanthippus ("Aegean region (uncertain)") →	deathPlace
Hellenistic art ("Aegean region") → Hellenistic art →	developedIn
Hellenistic Jews → Sufism ("Anatolia") →	geographicDistribution
Ottoman Empire ("Anatolia") → Pontic Greek →	historicalRegion
Asia Minor ("Anatolia") → Asia Minor ("Asia Minor Peninsula") →	knownAs
Roman army → army of Cyrus the Younger →	operatedIn
Julio-Claudian dynasty → Roman Empire →	territoryIncludes
Apostle Paul →	activityRegion
Eastern Mediterranean ("Anatolia") →	adjacentTo
Anatolia →	alsoKnownAs
Diocletian's price edict →	archaeologicalEvidenceFoundIn
John of Patmos →	associatedRegion
daric →	circulatedIn
Department of Greek and Roman Art →	collectionRegion
Department of Islamic Art ("Anatolia") →	coversRegion
Histories →	describesRegion
Timothy →	fromRegion
Johannine community →	geographicalContext
Armenian Rite ("Cilicia") →	geographicCenter
Lydian →	geographicContext
Gesta Francorum →	geographicFocus
Classical Greek architecture →	geographicRegion
Hellenistic religion →	hasCulturalContext
Greek Antiquity →	hasRegion
Romaniote Jews →	historicalCenter
Asia Minor ("Anatolia") →	historicalNameOf
Middle East ("Anatolia") →	historicalRegionIncludes
Rhodes →	locatedNear
Acts of the Apostles →	majorLocation
Dardanus →	migratedTo
Peloponnesian War →	place
Saint Nicholas of Myra →	placeOfActivity
Ancient Greek religion →	practicedIn
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World →	regionCovered
Basil of Caesarea →	regionOfActivity
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities →	regionOfFocus
Thuluth script ("Anatolia") →	regionOfProminence
Licinius →	ruledRegion
Lesbos ("Asia Minor by Mytilini Strait") →	separatedFrom
Hellenica →	setIn
Marcionism →	spreadTo
Early Christians →	spreadToRegion
Cyrus the Great ("Anatolia") →	territoryRuled
Panticapaeum →	tradedWith
William Wilkins →	traveledTo
Koine Greek →	usedInRegion
Leto →	worshippedAt
Apollo →	worshipRegion
Serapis →	worshipSpreadTo