03-20-2005, 03:09 AM
Jester,Mar 19 2005, 06:16 PM Wrote:Nit to Kandrathe:
One quick google...
Asia Minor: A peninsula of western Asia between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. It is generally coterminous with Asian Turkey and is usually considered synonymous with Anatolia.
Or, from Wikipedia
Anatolia (Greek: ανατολή anatolē or anatolÃ, "rising of the sun" or "East"; compare "Orient" and "Levant", by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana "mother" and dolu "filled"), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey.
So... yeah. Asia Minor *is* Turkey, and does not include the Levant or Mesopotamia. Not that this really deflects the thrust of Kandrathe's criticism, but his geographical terminology wasn't quite correct.
Jester
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Thanks. As I did not bother to look it up, I appreciate your taking the effort. :D A Guinness for you.
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete