Asia Minor
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Asia Minor is a peninsula. It is also called Anatolia. A large part of the Asian part of Turkey is Asia Minor. The seas surrounding Asia Minor are the Black Sea, the Egeian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
The Roman Empire had a province called Asia, which was in Turkey. Later people started to call the entire continent Asia, so the peninsula Asia was called Asia Minor (little Asia).
Many great historical people, like the Hittites, Greeks, Persians, Armenians, Romans, Goths, Byzantines and Turks, have lived in or occupied Asia Minor.
