Asia Minor

noun

a peninsula in W Asia between the Black and Mediterranean seas, including most of Asiatic Turkey.

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Asia Minor

—n
	the historical name for Anatolia

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Asia Minor definition

Peninsula in western Asia consisting of the Asian part of Turkey.

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"There are few books which are fit to be remembered in our wisest hours, but the Iliad is brightest in the serenest days, and embodies still all the sunlight that fell on Asia Minor. No modern joy or ecstasy of ours can lower its height or dim its lustre, but there it lies in the east of literature, as it were the earliest and latest production of the mind. The ruins of Egypt oppress and stifle us with their dust, foulness preserved in cassia and pitch, and swathed in linen; the death of that which never lived. But the rays of Greek poetry struggle down to us, and mingle with the sunbeams of the recent day. The statue of Memnon is cast down, but the shaft of the Iliad still meets the sun in his rising."

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