Asia Minor
Asia Minor
Asia Minor (/'eɪʒə 'maɪnər/), also known as Anatolia (from Greek: Ανατολή, Anatolḗ, 'east' or '[sun]rise'; Turkish: Anadolu), is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It makes up the majority of modern-day Turkey.
Etymology
The term "Asia Minor" (/'eɪʒə 'maɪnər/) is a historical exonym that was used by the Romans, which means "smaller Asia". The term was used to differentiate it from the larger Asia province, which covered much of what we know today as Asia.
The term "Anatolia" (/'ænə'toʊliə/) is derived from the Greek word "ἀνατολή" meaning "the East" or "sunrise". The name was used by the Greeks to denote the eastern parts of their world.
Related Terms
- Byzantine Empire: The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern Istanbul, formerly Byzantium). It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
- Ottoman Empire: The Ottoman Empire was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt by the Turkoman tribal leader Osman I.
- Hittites: The Hittites were an Anatolian people who played an important role in establishing an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1600 BC.
- Troy: Troy was a city in the far northwest of the region known in late Classical antiquity as Asia Minor, now known as Anatolia in modern Turkey.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Asia Minor
- Wikipedia's article - Asia Minor
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