Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Anatolia
Anatolia
A peninsula between the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea, also known as Asia Minor. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it was the perpetual target of invaders beginning with the Hittites in the 19th century BC, through Indo-Europeans, Phrygians, Cimmerians, Lydians, Persians, Macedonians, Ptolemies, Seleucids, Celts, Byzantines, Seljuks, Ottoman Turks and finally the British and Greeks. It is now part of Turkey.
This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: proper noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: History
- Category: World history
- Company:
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Economy Category: International economics
Low wage trap
A term that describes the situation in which the average worker in a labour market increases his/her work effort which leads only to little or even no ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
pmss1990
0
Terms
1
Blossaries
0
Followers
Medecine: Immunodeficiency and pathophysiology
Category: Science 2 22 Terms
Browers Terms By Category
- Authors(2488)
- Sportspeople(853)
- Politicians(816)
- Comedians(274)
- Personalities(267)
- Popes(204)
People(6223) Terms
- Meteorology(9063)
- General weather(899)
- Atmospheric chemistry(558)
- Wind(46)
- Clouds(40)
- Storms(37)
Weather(10671) Terms
- Bridge(5007)
- Plumbing(1082)
- Carpentry(559)
- Architecture(556)
- Flooring(503)
- Home remodeling(421)
Construction(10757) Terms
- American culture(1308)
- Popular culture(211)
- General culture(150)
- People(80)
Culture(1749) Terms
- Investment banking(1768)
- Personal banking(1136)
- General banking(390)
- Mergers & acquisitions(316)
- Mortgage(171)
- Initial public offering(137)