Major Countries of the Ancient Near East

By N.S. Gill, About.com Guide

Anatolia is the area between the Euphrates River, the Black Sea, and the Aegean. It is a Greek name for sunrise because it is to the east of Greece. Catal Huyuk, one of the earliest neolithic urban areas, from the 7th millennium B.C., is located in central Anatolia. The southeastern area of Anatolia came in contact with Mesopotamia. The site of Troy is in the west of Anatolia. The Hittites politically unified the area when they established a kingdom there in the 18th century B.C., with a capital at Hattusa. In about 1200 B.C., Hattusa was destroyed. Greeks settled in Anatolia in the first millennium B.C.

• Anatolia Timeline
• Anatolia
• Sea People
• Catal Huyuk

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2. Babylonia
3. Assyria
4. Judah (Judaea)
5. Persia
6. Lebanon
7. Egypt
8. Syria
9. Anatolia (this page)
10. Fertile Crescent Map