Asia Minor
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- proper noun
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Asia Menor
- About the seventh century B.C. in Asia Minor, the Lydians invented coinage.
The progress of World War One LED Britain to show increasing concern for Asia Minor.
- The progress of World War One LED Britain to show increasing concern for Asia Minor.
- But the idea of a, a Roman people in North Africa, in Asia Minor, in the Balkans is no longer.
- And he comes from Asia Minor, among the priests of his eponymous God.
- So he's he's born in this place, Hirropoulos in Phrygia, so part of Asia Minor.
Examples
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Many ancient civilizations, such as the Greeks and Romans, flourished in Asia Minor due to its strategic location.
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Its location was an important commercial stop on a major trade route leading to the interior region of Asia Minor.
Blog text (19) -
Turkey used to be called "Asia Minor."
Blog text (26) -
At its height, it extended from North Africa through the Middle East, Asia Minor, and Southeast Europe.
Blog text (18) -
These two groups of people met each other briefly in the western part of the Anatolian Peninsula, Asia Minor.
Academic text (2007) -
It began about six centuries before Christ, in the Greek settlements on the west coast of Asia Minor.
Fiction book (1991) -
The Angora goat is an ancient and excellent breed in Turkey that originated in the district of Angora in Asia Minor.
Academic text (2013) -
Rome was a supremely multicultural society; it included people from across North Africa, Asia Minor, and the Middle East, as well as most of Europe, who became not only citizens of the Roman Empire but often its leaders as well.
Academic text (1994) -
Galen was born roughly half a millennium after Hippocrates (130 CE in Asia Minor, modern Turkey) and was much influenced by him.
Blog text (10) -
The region of Asia Minor is known for its diverse landscapes, ranging from mountains to coastal plains.
Synonyms
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6.7
A large area of land in western Asia that is the Asian part of Turkey
Surface Forms
Morphology
Asia + Minor
The compound is compositionally built from 'Asia' and 'minor' (meaning smaller/lesser), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a smaller/particular region of Asia (i.e. Lesser Asia/Anatolia). This naming pattern (e.g. Asie Mineure, Asia Menor) exists in many languages, making the geographic sense readily recoverable for B1 learners.
Etymology
Asia Minor comes from the words Asia and Minor, which ancient writers used to mean 'smaller Asia'. So Asia Minor became the name for the 'peninsula' of Anatolia, the smaller Asian part of modern Turkey.