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Part of ancient Turkey
Answer for the clue "Part of ancient Turkey ", 5 letters:
ionia
Alternative clues for the word ionia
- Greek peninsula
- Aegean region where an architectural order began
- Ancient neighbor of Lydia
- Colophon's region
- Coastal Anatolian region
- Ancient 71-Across land in modern-day Turkey
- Home of the ancient city Colophon
- Center of an ancient Greek "enlightenment"
- City near Grand Rapids
- Ancient region of modern Turkey
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.