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Anatolia, or Asia Minor Turkish Anadolu, Peninsula forming the western extremity of Asia. It is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west. Its eastern boundary is generally marked by the southeastern Taurus Mountains.
Anatolia, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula located in West Asia and a region of Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.
Anatolia, also called Asia Minor (from Ancient Greek: 'Άνατολή, Turkish: Anadolu), is a peninsula at the west end of Asia. It forms the majority of modern Turkey . It has an area of 750,000 km 2 (290,000 sq mi).
Regions of ancient Anatolia. Borders drawn along the Euphrates and Armenian Highlands in the east, Taurus Mountains, Amanus Mountains (today's Nur Mountains) and Mediterranean Sea in the south and south-east, Pontus Euxinus ( Black Sea) to the north, and Aegean Sea, Propontis ( Marmara sea ), Bosphorus and Thrace in the west.
Classical Anatolia is Anatolia during Classical Antiquity. Early in that period, Anatolia was divided into several Iron Age kingdoms, most notably Lydia in the west, Phrygia in the center and Urartu in the east. Anatolia fell under Achaemenid Persian rule c. 550 BC.
The prehistory of Anatolia stretches from the Paleolithic era through to the appearance of classical civilisation in the middle of the 1st millennium BC. It is generally regarded as being divided into three ages reflecting the dominant materials used for the making of domestic implements and weapons: Stone Age , Bronze Age and Iron Age .
Anatolian peoples. The Anatolians were Indo-European -speaking peoples of the Anatolian Peninsula in present-day Turkey, identified by their use of the Anatolian languages. [1] .
