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Ancient Asia Minor region
Answer for the clue "Ancient Asia Minor region ", 5 letters:
ionia
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Population (2000): 10569 Housing Units (2000): 2621 Land area (2000): 5.042771 sq. miles (13.060717 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.162914 sq. miles (0.421946 sq. km) Total area (2000): 5.205685 sq. miles (13.482663 sq. km) FIPS code: 40860 Located within: ...
Usage examples of ionia.
I lately picked up in Ionia and Achaia, from several historians, who gave accounts of this war.
Not only was it the time of Thales, Anaximander, Pythagoras and others in Ionia, but also the time of the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho who caused Africa to be circumnavigated, of Zoroaster in Persia, Confucius and Lao-tse in China, the Jewish prophets in Israel, Egypt and Babylon, and Gautama Buddha in India.
The Ionia, a miscellaneous dictionary of history and fable, was compiled by another empress of the name of Eudocia, who lived in the eleventh century: and the work is still extant in manuscript.
From his retirement in the happy country of Ionia, he was conveyed under a strong guard to the court of Milan.
In Ionia, the Phoenician alphabet was first adapted to Greek usage and widespread literacy became possible.