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Turkish peninsula region
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anatolia
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ancient name of Asia Minor, from Medieval Latin Anatolia , from Greek anatole "the east," originally "sunrise" (which of course happens in the east), literally "a rising above (the horizon)," from anatellein "to rise," from ana "up" (see ana- ) + tellein ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Anatolia , also known as Asia Minor, is the peninsular region between the Black Sea in the north and Mediterranean Sea in the south. Anatolia may also refer to: Air Anatolia , a defunct Turkish airline Anatolia (album) , a 1997 album by Mezarkabul Anatolia ...
Usage examples of anatolia.
This had been accomplished by awarding him an all-expenses-paid embassage to Anatolia, which afforded him the chance to make a lot of money during the year he was away.
If Caesar had warned him in that oblique way that trouble was coming in Anatolia, then the same instincts had prompted him to want two full legions sent to him in Alexandria.
Whereabouts you can find troops I do not know, as I will have picked the whole of Anatolia bare, but I have left Marcus Junius Brutus in Tarsus under orders to start recruiting and training, so you should be able to acquire at least one legion when your commander reaches Cilicia.
Ptolemaic blood, and grandchild of a rascally old king who might have terrorized Anatolia for forty years, but still ended a broken man.
So matters in Anatolia lie dormant for at least the next three or four months.
Cato had started out from Cyrenaica, the general consensus had been June, as this date would give Caesar time to deal with King Pharnaces in Anatolia first.
Once Mithridates was defeated and Pompeius Magnus was all over Anatolia doling out land, Deiotarus expanded his kingdom in every direction, including at the expense of the old Ariobarzanes.
Anatolia where the country looked a dream to a horse people, rich in grass, and promising work for competent mounted warriors, of whom Anatolia had none.
His expedition might turn out to be Lucullus and Clodius in eastern Anatolia all over again.
Gaius Cassius has left Syria in the direction of Anatolia, probably, we think, to conjoin with his fellow criminal, Marcus Brutus.
Gauls who settled in Anatolia in the grassy regions between Bithynia and the Halys River.
A large state in northeastern Anatolia, bordering the Euxine Sea and more or less enclosed by the Halys River.
From time to time the Christians raised their heads, but the soldiers from Anatolia struck at them and made them bow again under the yoke.
Half a million had died breaking the Ankara line in Anatolia, in 1917, and as many more in the grinding campaigns of pacification in the Asian territories after the war.
It will secure for us the trade in amber from the Baltic, in copper and tin from northern Anatolia and in the gold that comes down through Thrace.