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Asia Minor
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synonyms: Anatolia, Anatolian peninsula, Asian Turkey ???
tags: [geography]
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Definition:basically western mainland Turkey
map: By Spiridon Ion Cepleanu - Own work Derivative map, background of Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0,
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they flitted to Tunis; then to Italy, Greece, Constantinople, Asia Minor.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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Was there not the geography of Asia Minor, in which her slackness had often been rebuked by Mr. Casaubon? She went to the cabinet of maps and unrolled one: this morning she might make herself finally sure that Paphlagonia was not on the Levantine coast, and fix her total darkness about the Chalybes firmly on the shores of the Euxine.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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