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anatolia
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 "to accomplish, perform."
Wikipedia
Anatolia (from Greek , — "east" or "(sun)rise"; in modern ), in geography known as Asia Minor (from — "small Asia"; in modern ), Asian Turkey, Anatolian peninsula, or Anatolian plateau, is the westernmost protrusion of Asia, which makes up the majority of modern-day Turkey.
The ancient inhabitants of Anatolia spoke the now-extinct Anatolian languages, which were largely replaced by the Greek language starting from classical antiquity and during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods. The Turkification of Anatolia began under the Seljuk Empire in the late 11th century and continued under the Ottoman Empire between the early 14th and early 20th centuries. However, various non-Turkic languages continue to be spoken by minorities in Anatolia today, including Kurdish, Assyrian, Armenian, Arabic, Laz, and Georgian.
The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west. The Sea of Marmara forms a connection between the Black and Aegean Seas through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits and separates Anatolia from Thrace on the European mainland.
According to the traditional definition, the eastern boundary of the Anatolian peninsula is a diagonal line that extends from the Gulf of Iskenderun on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey to the shores of Artvin Province on the eastern Black Sea coast of the country. The mountainous plateau to the east of this line was historically known as the Armenian Highlands (Armenia Major). This region is now named (and largely situated within) the Eastern Anatolia Region in the far east of Turkey and converges with the Lesser Caucasus — an area that was incorporated in the Russian Empire region of Transcaucasia in the 19th century. Thus, traditionally, Anatolia is the territory that comprises approximately the western two-thirds of the Asian part of Turkey. Since the early 20th century, Anatolia is often considered to be synonymous with Asian Turkey, which comprises more than 95% of the country's total land area, and its eastern and southeastern borders are widely perceived as Turkey's borders with neighboring Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, in clockwise direction.
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 College in Merzifon, former name of the Anatolia College of Thessaloniki
- Anatolia College, private non-profit educational institution located in Thessaloniki
- Anatolia Eyalet, a former Ottoman province
- Anatolic Theme, a former Byzantine province
- Fire of Anatolia, a Turkish dance group
- Saint Anatolia, a Christian woman denounced for refusing to marry a non-Christian and martyred for her Christianity
- Eastern Anatolia Region, a region in Turkey
- Central Anatolia Region, a region in Turkey
- Southeastern Anatolia Region, a region in Turkey
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.