Asia Minor
About Asia Minor
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.
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In the first century, in Asia Minor, there was the idea of using mad honey. This is honey that has a poisonous element to it, which a lot of people, if mixed in lightly into a drink, can drink and have a high of it, but quite a big amount could actually cause you to have huge stomach problems, possibly even fatal to some people.
from No Such Thing As A Sneaky Badger Swapsie, 2021-02-05 at 00:48:13 · read transcript
Other times Asia Minor came up
That's weird, the Hellas. Do you know what the Turks call them? This is even more interesting. Unanistan. Unan is the Persian for Greece because the bit of Greece that used to be in Asia Minor called Ionia, which they were all kicked out of in the early 20th century. That's how they got the name. Unanistan, it's weird. The Greeks don't like Macedonia, do they? They don't like them taking that name.
NSTAAF International Factball: Greece v Japan, 2014-06-24 · listen
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