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Ionia

American

[ahy-oh-nee-uh] / aɪˈoʊ ni ə /

noun

an ancient region on the W coast of Asia Minor and on adjacent islands in the Aegean: colonized by the ancient Greeks.

Ionia British

/ aɪˈəʊnɪə /

noun

an ancient region of W central Asia Minor, including adjacent Aegean islands: colonized by Greeks in about 1100 _bc

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Around 449 BCE, Athens and Persia reached a peace settlement in which the Persians recognized the independence of Ionia and the Athenians agreed to stop aiding rebels in the Persian Empire.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Five men were hit Saturday in Ionia County during a three-day endurance ride for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2022

Joe Farrington ran for Congress as a “working class Republican” and owns a bar in Lyons, Michigan, about 50 miles east of Grand Rapids, in Ionia County, where Trump won nearly two-thirds of the vote.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2021

Jones is from the Four Corners region in southern Utah, but she had been staying in Ionia County last summer.

From Washington Times • Dec. 13, 2020

Thales brought back from Babylon and Egypt the seeds of the new sciences of astronomy and geometry, sciences that would sprout and grow in the fertile soil of Ionia.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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