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Part of ancient Greece
Answer for the clue "Part of ancient Greece ", 5 letters:
ionia
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Population (2000): 61518 Housing Units (2000): 22006 Land area (2000): 573.213835 sq. miles (1484.616954 sq. km) Water area (2000): 7.017770 sq. miles (18.175940 sq. km) Total area (2000): 580.231605 sq. miles (1502.792894 sq. km) Located within: Michigan ...
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.