which countries make asia minor? why is it called asia minor?

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my boyfriend were talking about this and i didn't want to look foolish i thought turkey, greece and the middle east form part of asia minor

Answer 1

Anatolia is a geographic region with two related but distinctly different senses of meaning (in English-language usage) that are usually clear from the context.

The term refers to both the greater region, the peninsula of Southwest Asia often called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, and (somewhat incorrectly) the smaller upland region within, known more properly as the Anatolian Plateau (covered below). The peninsular region comprises the greater Asian part of the modern country of Turkey (covering 96% of its land area), as opposed to its European portion (known as Thrace or Rumelia)

another good reference for you:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/anatolia/p/AncAsiaMinor.htm

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which countries make asia minor? why is it called asia minor?
my boyfriend were talking about this and i didn't want to look foolish i thought turkey, greece and the middle east form part of asia minor

Answer 3

Palestine, Israel,Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Dubai,Bahrein, Kuwait, Muscat.
It's called Asia Minor because it is a small part of the continent almost separated from the rest by the Persian Gulf.

Answer 4

I think there's only been one country that's sometimes called Asia Minor, nee Turkey.

Answer 5

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.

The Anatolian peninsula is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea (itself an arm of the Mediterranean) to the west, and the bulk of the Asian mainland to the east.

Anatolia's terrain is structurally complex. A central massif composed of uplifted blocks and downfolded troughs, covered by recent deposits and giving the appearance of a plateau with rough terrain, is wedged between two folded mountain ranges that converge in the east. True lowland is confined to a few narrow coastal strips along the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea coasts. Flat or gently sloping land is rare and largely confined to the deltas of the Kızıl River, the coastal plains of Çukurova, and the valley floors of the Gediz River and the Büyük Menderes River, and some interior high plains in Anatolia, mainly around Tuz Gölü (Salt Lake) and Konya Ovası (Konya Basin).