Anatolia Definition

ănə-tōlē-ə, -tōlyə
pronoun

A peninsula of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. Bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Armenian Highland to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.

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Noun

Singular:
Anatolia
Plural:
anatolias

Origin of Anatolia

  • From Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolē, “sunrise, place from where the sun rises, the east”), from ἀνατέλλω (anatellō, “I rise”), from ἀνά (ana, “up”) + τέλλω (tellō, “I perform, accomplish, rise”), because Anatolia was east of Greece.

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Anatolia Sentence Examples

  • In 1880 Prenk was kidnapped by the Turkish authorities and exiled to Anatolia; another member of the ruling family was appointed kaimakam, but the Mirdites refused to obey him, and their district has ever since been in a state of anarchy.

  • In the 18th century, in common with most of Anatolia, its actual lord was a Dere Bey.

  • Chantre in 1894 picked up lustreless ware, like that of Hissarlik, in central Phrygia and at Pteria, and the English archaeological expeditions, sent subsequently into north-western Anatolia, have never failed to bring back ceramic specimens of Aegean appearance from the valleys of the Rhyndacus, Sangarius and Halys.

  • Thus the "Aegean Area" has now come to mean the Archipelago with Crete and Cyprus, the Hellenic peninsula with the Ionian isles, and Western Anatolia.

  • Opium is mainly grown in Anatolia.

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