Asia Minor

The first writer to use the term Asia Minor is the Christian Orosius

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Anatolia, the main Turkish landmass that historically has been known as Asia Minor, literally translates as "full of mothers".

Zeyno Baran: Let the Truth Shine 2009

Even Asia Minor, that is to say the uplands of Anatolia, is beginning to reveal herself to explorers although almost all the great sanctuaries, Pessinus, the two Comanas,

The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

The principles which he lays down and justifies in his answers to the doubts of the religious of Asia Minor, that is in what are called the shorter and longer rules, inform and guide the religious of the present day.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Eastern Asia Minor, that is Cappadocia, Pontus and Armenia, he left alone, and its contingents would still be arrayed on the Persian side in both the great battles to come.

The Ancient East 1894

-- The botany of Syria and Palestine differs but little from that of Asia Minor, which is one of the most rich and varied on the globe.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

Greek, variously influenced from Athens on one side, Byzantium on the other: then, across the Ægean, you have the great country absurdly called Asia Minor, (for we might just as well call Greece, Europe Minor, or Cornwall, England Minor,) but which is properly to be remembered as

Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859

(land of Lycus) is the name of that southwestern region of the peninsula of Asia Minor which is immediately opposite the island of Rhodes.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

His last great defeat came at sea, near Pamphylia in Asia Minor, where Carthaginian ships fought with the Romans against him (as Miles says "we can only imagine his shock and sorrow".)

A story of Hannibal offers a lesson to the modern world 2010

With the loss of the harbor, traders working the coast of Asia Minor moved elsewhere, which pretty much put Ephesus out of business.

Bob Schulman: Ephesus Survives Swords, Scimitars and Silt 2010