04/05/2018 · The name 'Asia Minor' (from the Greek 'Mikra Asia' - Little Asia) was first coined by the Christian historian Orosius (c. 375-418 CE) in his work Seven Books of History Against the Pagans in 400 CE to differentiate the main of Asia from that region which had been evangelized by Paul the Apostle (which included sites known from Paul's Epistles in the Bible such as …

Asia Minor is not Turkey. Asia Minor (Anatolia) is the name of the respective peninsula occupied by Turkey nowadays. Modern Turkey occupies also a part of the Balkan Peninsula (Rumelia), a large part of Armenian Highlands (Western Armenia), as well as …

Asia Minor, a peninsula also called Anatolia (from the Ancient Greek: ‘Άνατολή), (Turkish: Anadolu), comprises the Asian part of modern Turkey. Asia Minor is 750,000 square kilometers (290,000 square miles). The seas surrounding Asia Minor are the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Where did Asia Minor and an Asia Major located in modern day? …

Asia Minor. Asia Minor, a peninsula also called Anatolia (from the Ancient Greek: 'Άνατολή), ( Turkish: Anadolu ), comprises the Asian part of modern Turkey . Asia Minor is 750,000 square kilometers (290,000 square miles). Most of Asia Minor is a plateau averaging 1,000 meters (3,000 feet) above sea level.

Anatolia (Turkish: Anadolu), better known in the history by the name of Asia Minor, is considered to be the westernmost extent of Western Asia. Geographically it encompasses the central uplands of modern Turkey, from the coastal plain of the Aegean Sea east to the mountains on the Armenian border and from the narrow coast of the Black Sea south to the Taurus Mountains …

There was an Asia Minor and an Asia Major located in modern-day Iraq. As the earliest evidence of the name is Greek, it is likely circumstantially that Asia came from Ἀσία, but ancient transitions, due to the lack of literary contexts, are difficult to catch in the act.

The earthquakes of Asia Minor have not been of such a serious nature, and seem rarely if ever to have caused more than a passing loss and inconvenience. There was nothing in such an event likely either to kill or to frighten away the Christians of those two Churches. (3) Troas was the seat of a Church in AD 56 (2 Cor 2:12) and AD 57 (Acts 20:7ff).

Asia is the birthplace of all the world’s major religions—Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism—and of many minor ones. Of those, only Christianity developed primarily outside of Asia; it exerts little influence on the continent, though many …