Anatolia
Sign in to saveAnatolia (), also known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Turkish Straits to the northwest, and the Black Sea to the north. The eastern and southeastern limits have been expanded either to the entirety of Asiatic Turkey or to an imprecise line from the Black Sea to the Gulf of Alexandretta. Topographically, the Sea of Marmara connects the Black Sea with the Aegean Sea through the Bosporus an
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Anatolia, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in West Asia that forms the majority of Turkey's territory, bordered by the Mediterranean, Aegean, and Black Seas. It is geographically significant as the westernmost extension of Asia, though its exact eastern boundaries have been defined differently throughout history.
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Key facts
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- Map of Anatolia (dark green), which according to one definition is delineated by an imprecise line from the Gulf of Alexandretta to the Black Sea. According to another definition, it is coterminous with the Asian part of Turkey.
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- 'The East' (from , )
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- West Asia
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- Peninsula
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- 537,886
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- Ankara
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- 5,803,482
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- Anatolian
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- TRT
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- +03:00
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- Map of the geographic region of Anatolia.png
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Article
27 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Etymology
- Names
- History
- Prehistoric Anatolia
- Ancient Anatolia
- Hattians and Hurrians
- Hittites, Luwians, and Palaians
- Post-Hittite Anatolia (12th–6th centuries BCE)
- Early Greek presence
- Classical Anatolia
- Hellenistic period
- Early Christian period
- Medieval period
- Ottoman Empire
- Modern times
- Geology
- Climate
- Ecoregions
- Demographics
- See also
- Explanatory notes
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Anatolia (), also known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Turkish Straits to the northwest, and the Black Sea to the north. The eastern and southeastern limits have been expanded either to the entirety of Asiatic Turkey or to an imprecise line from the Black Sea to the Gulf of Alexandretta. Topographically, the Sea of Marmara connects the Black Sea with the Aegean Sea through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, and separates Anatolia from Thrace in Southeast Europe.
During the Neolithic period, Anatolia was an early center for the development of farming after it originated in the adjacent Fertile Crescent. Beginning around 9,000 years ago, there was a major migration of Anatolian neolithic farmers into Europe, with their descendants coming to dominate the continent as far west as the Iberian Peninsula and the British Isles.