04/05/2018 · Ancient Asia Minor is a geographic region located in the south-western part of Asia comprising most of what is present-day Turkey. The earliest reference to the region comes from tablets of the Akkadian Dynasty (2334-2083 BCE) where it is known as 'The Land of the Hatti ' and was inhabited by the Hittites .

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 Highland (Western Armenia), as well as some other territories outside of Asia Minor.

Ancient Asia Minor is a geographic region located in the south-western part of Asia comprising most of what is present-day Turkey. The earliest reference to the region comes from tablets of the Akkadian Dynasty (2334-2083 BCE) where it is known as ‘The Land of the Hatti ‘ and was inhabited by the Hittites . Where is Western Asia Minor? Asia Minor.

Ancient Asia Minor is a geographic region located in the south-western part of Asia comprising most of what is present-day Turkey. The earliest reference to the region comes from tablets of the Akkadian Dynasty (2334-2083 BCE) where it is known as ‘The Land of …

a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey. Anatolia (from Greek Aνατολή Anatolē; also Asia Minor, from , Mikrá Asía) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey. A large peninsula, mostly coterminous with Anatolia, between ...

Asia Minor is a historical term referring largely to western and central Anatolia, which is now covered by about 2/3rds of Turkey. In older sources it largely referred to the Greek coast, but later extended further west.

Asia Minor (as the country was called to distinguish it from the continent of Asia), or Anatolia, is the name given to the peninsula which reaches out between the Black Sea (Pontus Euxinus) on the North and the Mediterranean on the South, forming an elevated land-bridge between central Asia and southeastern Europe.

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.