Physical
Ionia was of small extent, not exceeding 150 kilometres (90 mi) in length from north to south, with a breadth varying from 60 to 90 kilometres (40 to 60 mi), but to this must be added the

Ionia has a long roll of distinguished men of letters and science (notably the Ionian School of philosophy) and distinct school of art. This school flourished between 700 and 500 BC. The great

• Ancient regions of Anatolia
• Regions of ancient Greece
• Ionians
• List of traditional Greek place names
• Population exchange between Greece and Turkey

Ancient demographics are available only from literary sources. Herodotus states that in Asia the Ionians kept the division into twelve cities that had prevailed in Ionian lands of the north

From the 18th century BC the region was a part of the Hittite Empire with possible name Arzawa, which was destroyed by invaders during the 12th century BC together with the collapse of the Empire. Ionia was settled by the Greeks probably during the 11th century

Ionia appears as the major setting in these novels:
• The Ionia Sanction (2011), by Gary Corby
• The Ionian Mission (1981), by Patrick O'Brian

1. ^ Smith, William (1857). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Volume II Iabadius-Zymethus. London: Walton and Maberly. "Ionia", pages 60–61.
2. ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the