ASIA MINOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Asia Minor mean? 

• ASIA MINOR (noun)
  The noun ASIA MINOR has 1 sense:

1. a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey

  Familiarity information: ASIA MINOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASIA MINOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Anatolia; Asia Minor

Instance hypernyms:

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Asia Minor"):

Bithynia (an ancient country in northwestern Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; was absorbed into the Roman Empire by the end of the 1st century BC)

Cappadocia (an ancient country is eastern Asia Minor)

Galatia (an ancient country in central Asia Minor)

Phrygia (an ancient country in western and central Asia Minor)

Pontus (an ancient region of northern Asia Minor on the Black Sea; it reached its height under Mithridates VI but was later incorporated into the Roman Empire)

Aeolia; Aeolis (an ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BC)

Lycia (an ancient region on the coast of southwest Asia Minor)

Lydia (an ancient region on the coast of western Asia Minor; a powerful kingdom until conquered by the Persians in 546 BC)

Ephesus (an ancient Greek city on the western shore of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; site of the Temple of Artemis; was a major trading center and played an important role in early Christianity)

Ilion; Ilium; Troy (an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War)

Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)

Ionia (region of western Asia Minor colonized by ancient Greeks)

Domain member region:

malik (the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent)

Battle of Granicus River; Granicus (the battle in which Alexander won his first major victory against the Persians (334 BC))

battle of Issus; Issus (a battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III)

battle of Ipsus; Ipsus (a battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC); Lysimachus and Seleucus defeated Antigonus and Demetrius)

Holonyms ("Asia Minor" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

 Context examples 

Dear mama, only think, my cousin cannot put the map of Europe together—or my cousin cannot tell the principal rivers in Russia—or, she never heard of Asia Minor—or she does not know the difference between water-colours and crayons!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)