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Participants will learn the importance of geography to early Greek civilization, the reason for the spread of Greek cities throughout Asia Minor, contributions of Greek thinkers to world civilization, and the growth of early Christianity in an area of the world once dominated by pagan Greek religion.
Anatolia or Asia Minor in the Greco-Roman period: The classical regions, including Pontus, and their main settlements. Map of Pontus in antiquity, 1901 The first travels of Greek merchants and adventurers to the Pontus region occurred probably from around 1000 BC, whereas their settlements would become steady and solidified cities only by the ...
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According to Hittite sources, the capital of the kingdom of Arzawa (another independent state in Western and Southern Anatolia/Asia Minor) was Apasa (or Abasa), and some scholars suggest that this is the same place the Greeks later called Ephesus.
Miletus was a Mycenaean stronghold on the coast of Asia Minor from c. 1450 to 1100 BC. The 13th century BC saw the arrival of Luwian language speakers from south central Anatolia calling themselves the Carians. Later in that century other Greeks arrived. The city at that time rebelled against the Hittite Empire.
Apr 23, 2021 · April 23, 2021. The Greeks were the second largest population group in the Ottoman Empire before the Asia Minor Catastrophe. What other peoples disappeared? In such days in Smyrna in 1922, Hellenism, which had been present in Asia Minor for millennia, forcibly bid farewell to its ancestral land.
Greece and Asia Minor; By Barbara Levick, St Hilda’s College, Oxford Edited by Alan K. Bowman, University of Oxford, Peter Garnsey, University of Cambridge, Dominic Rathbone, King's College London; Book: The Cambridge Ancient History; Online publication: 28 March 2008; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521263351.021
Ancient Asia Minor is a geographic region located in the south-western part of Asia comprising most of present-day Turkey. The earliest reference to the region comes from tablets of the Akkadian Dynasty (2334-2083 BCE) where it was known as The Land of the Hatti and was inhabited by the Hittites.
