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Anatolia - Asia Minor - Turkey

Modern-day Turkey's European section -- Anatolia -- has a very long historical tradition. There's archaeological evidence for Anatolia all the way back to the Neolithic Age, 9000 B.C.
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Ancient Asia Minor

Information on city-states of Asia Minor: Phrygia, Mysia, Lydia, Caria, Lycia, Cilicia, Pontus and Bithynia.

Bithynia

Bithynia is a country in Asia Minor across from Constantinople that was a Persian satrapy as well as a Roman province.

Anatolia - Modern Turkey

Successive waves of residents of ancient Anatolia (modern Turkey) included Hittites, Phrygians, Lydians, and Kurds.

Asia Minor

A short, glossary entry on Asia Minor.

Ancient Anatolia

Anatolia was a center of the Neolithic agricultural revolution. Enduring political unification was achieved by the Hittites, an Indo-European confederation, about 1750 B.C.

Hittites

By Sanderson Beck. Little is known of its history until Assyrian traders settled on the central plateau about 1900 B.C. The story of the Hittites.

Maps of Ancient Anatolia and Asia Minor

Maps of ancient Anatolia, including prehistoric Anatolia, the Anatolia of the Hittites, and Asia Minor in the time of Alexander the Great.

Travel Maps of Turkey

Map of modern Anatolia in Turkey, showing cities.

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