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Land bordering ancient Lydia
Answer for the clue "Land bordering ancient Lydia ", 5 letters:
ionia
Alternative clues for the word ionia
- Old Aegean Sea region
- Ancient region of Turkey for which a sea is named
- Ancient Greek region called "the birthplace of philosophy"
- Ancient land near Lydia
- Asia Minor region colonized by Greek settlers
- Region of western Asia Minor colonized by Ancient Greeks
- City near Grand Rapids
- Aegean region where an architectural order began
- Early Greek colony
- Alexander the Great conquered it ca. 335 B.C
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.