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Definition of Anatolia
1. Noun. A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey.
Geographical relationships: Battle Of Granicus River, Granicus, Battle Of Ipsus, Ipsus, Battle Of Issus, Issus, Malik
Terms within: Bithynia, Cappadocia, Galatia, Phrygia, Pontus, Aeolia, Aeolis, Lycia, Lydia, Ephesus, Ilion, Ilium, Troy, Republic Of Turkey, Turkey, Ionia
Group relationships: Asia
Generic synonyms: Peninsula
Definition of Anatolia
1. Proper noun. A peninsula of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. Bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Armenian Highland to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anatolia
Literary usage of Anatolia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1900)
"... AD 1240] Divi«ion of Anatolia among the Turkish emirs, AD 1200, 4C. ...
Anatolia/9 his military forces were surpassed by the emirs of ..."
2. Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement by Ray Stannard Baker (1922)
"Balfour's memorandum of May 17, on the "Problem of Italy and Turkey in
Anatolia" (mimeograph). Mr. Balfour's Statement Regarding the Problem of Italy and ..."
3. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1915)
"Anatolia occupies the westward extension of the Iranian plateau that stretches
out like an arm towards Europe. On the north it is bounded by the Black Sea ..."
4. Speaking of the Turks by K. Ziya Mufti-zada (1922)
"XIV A VOICE FROM Anatolia matter how short and succinct it is, an account of the
Turks as they really are and of the Turkey of to-day would not be complete ..."
5. Asia: A Geography Reader by Ellsworth Huntington (1912)
"Anatolia is the Greek word for "sunrise" and also the word for "east. ...
The Greeks never went far inland in Anatolia, for the mountains rise steeply close ..."
6. The New World: Problems in Political Geography by Isaiah Bowman (1921)
"Only the large white area (most of Anatolia) remains to Turkey in unrestricted
sovereignty, though she enjoys limited sovereignty over the Constantinople ..."
7. The Effect of Maritime Command on Land Campaigns Since Waterloo by Charles Edward Callwell (1897)
"EGYPTIANS ADVANCE INTO Anatolia. and by the capture of its principal city ...
Anatolia'" Ibrahim was on the move again. He forced the passage of the hills ..."
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