Asia Minor

American  

noun

1. a peninsula in W Asia between the Black and Mediterranean seas, including most of Asiatic Turkey.

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Asia Minor British  

noun

1. the historical name for Anatolia

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Asia Minor Cultural  

1. Peninsula in western Asia consisting of the Asian part of Turkey.

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Example Sentences

Herodotus was an anthropological Autolycus, a spinner of yarns from Halicarnassus, a Greek colony in Asia Minor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

“The first ‘renaissance’ of European history,” Mr. Roeck observes, “was the Second Sophistic, which began in Asia Minor and lasted from about 60 to 230 AD.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Baron said that back in the sixth century BCE, there was a war that had been going on in Asia Minor for six years.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024

For example, the letters of Pliny the Younger, a provincial governor in Asia Minor in the early second century, ask the emperor Trajan for advice about local Christians.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Greece, Asia Minor, Mount Olympus, what did they have to do with me?

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides