asia minor

Noun
  1. A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey (synset 108719756)
    domain member region:
    • battle 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 Demetrius
    • battle of issus, issus - a battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III
    • malik - the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent
    is an instance of: peninsula - a large mass of land projecting into a body of water
    has:
    • bithynia - 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 BC
    • cappadocia - an ancient country is eastern Asia Minor
    • galatia - an ancient country in central Asia Minor
    • phrygia - an ancient country in western and central Asia Minor
    • pontus - 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 Empire
    • aeolia, aeolis - an ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BC
    • lycia - an ancient region on the coast of southwest Asia Minor
    • lydia - an ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor; a powerful kingdom until conquered by the Persians in 546 BC
    • ephesus - 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 Christianity
    • ilion, ilium, troy - an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War
    • republic 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 1923
    • ionia - region of western Asia Minor colonized by ancient Greeks
    is a part of: asia - 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 civilizations
    same as: anatolia

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