Dardania in Greek mythology is the name of a city founded on Mount Ida by Dardanus from which also the region and the people took their name. From Dardanus' grandson Tros the people gained the additional name of Trojans and the region gained the additional name Troad. Tros' son Ilus subsequently founded a further city called Ilion (in Latin Ilium) down on the plain, the city now more commonly calle ...

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Anatolia, Anatolia - States of Anatolia, Anatolia - Ottoman Rule of Asia Minor after 1885, Anatolia - Ethnic distribution in Asia Minor in the early 20th century before the Treaty of Lausanne

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Several years after the first victory over the Gauls, Pergamon was again attacked by the Gauls together with their ally Antiochus Hierax, the younger brother of Seleucus II Callinicus, and ruler of Seleucid Asia Minor from his capital at Sardis. Attalus defeated the Gauls and Antiochus at the battle of Aphrodisium and again at a second battle in the east. Subsequent battles were fought and won against Antiochus alone, in Hellespontine Phrygia, (where Antiochus was perhaps seeking refuge with his father-in law, Ziaelas the king of Bithynia), ...

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Anatolia (Greek: Aνατολή Αnatolē or Ανατολία Anatolìa) is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey, also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor. It means "rising of the sun" or "East", is . In Turkish it is called Anadolu, a derivation of its original Greek version. Because of its strategic location at the intersection of Asia and Europe, Anatolia has been a cradle for several civilizations since prehistoric ages, with Neolithic settlements su ...

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Asia is the largest and most populous of the Earth's continents. It is traditionally defined as part of the landmass of Africa-Eurasia lying east of the Suez Canal, east of the Ural Mountains, and southeast of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian and Black Seas. About 60 percent of the world's human population lives in Asia, of whom only 2 percent live in the northern and interior half (Siberia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, western Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan) ...

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Attalus I (Soter "Savior") (269 BCE–197 BCE)1 ruled Pergamon, a Greek city state in present-day Turkey, from 241 BCE to 197 BCE. He was the second cousin and the adoptive son of Eumenes I2, whom he succeeded, and was the first of the Attalid dynasty to assume the title of king.3 He won an important victory over the Galatians, newly arrived Celtic tribes from Thrace, who had been, for more than a generation, plundering and exacting tribute thr ...

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• Attalus I - Second Macedonian War
• Attalus I - Wife and sons
• Attalus I - The introduction of the cult of the Magna Mater to Rome
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The Altaic peoples are the peoples who speak Altaic languages. The existence of the Altaic language family as a genetically related group is controversial, and that of Altaic peoples even more so. Altaic people - Ethno-cultural subdivisions. The following subgroups of the Altaic peoples are classified by language family: Turkics (about 150 million speakers: Central Asia, North Asia, Asia Minor, and the south Caucasus) Mongols (about 5.7 million speakers: Central Asia), North Asia, and the north Caucasus). Tungus (abou ...

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The Roman province of Asia was the administrative unit added to the late Republic, a Senatorial province governed by a proconsul who was an ex-consul, an honor granted only to Asia and the other rich province of Africa. The arrangement was unchanged in the reorganization of the Roman Empire of 211 CE. "Asia" in the books of the Maccabees refers to Asia Minor, which Antiochus III (the Great) had to give up when the Romans crushed his army at the historic battle of Magnesia, in 190 BC. After the Treaty of Apamea, in 188 BC, the entire territory would be surrendered to Rome and pl ...

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Abydos, an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nagara Point on the Hellespont, which is here scarcely a mile broad. It probably was originally a Thracian town, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians. Here Xerxes crossed the strait on his bridge of boats in 480 B.C. when he invaded Greece. Abydos is celebrated for the vigorous resistance it made against Philip V of Macedon (200 BC), ...

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256 - Events. Goths invade Asia Minor. Dacia was lost for the Roman Empire. Synod of Carthage. Emperor Valerian of Rome persecutes Christians. 256 - Births. Arius, founder of Arianism 256 - Deaths. Category: 256 ...

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See text The true crows are in the genus Corvus; they are large Passerine birds. As a group they show remarkable examples of intelligence; it would not be at all an exaggeration to characterize crows as being to birds what higher primates (including humans) are to mammals. They also top the avian IQ scale[1]. Crows and ravens often score very highly on intelligence tests. Crows in the northwestern US (a blend of Corvus brachyrhynchos and Corvus caurinus) show modest linguistic capabilities and the ab ...

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• Crow - Australian species
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• Crow - North African & Asia Minor species
• Crow - European species
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In Greek mythology, Caunus was a son of Miletus and brother of Byblis. She fell in love with Caunus. He ran away and she followed him through much of Greece and Asia Minor until she finally died, tired and sad. She was changed into a spring. Other related archivesAsia Minor, Byblis, Greece, Greek mythology, Miletus

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Cyme can refer to: Cyme, a botanical term for a class of flower clusters (see inflorescence) characterized by the terminal flower in the cluster blooming first. Cyme, the ancient Aeolian Greek city on the coast of Aeolia, a part of Mysia, in northwest Asia Minor. CYME the ICAO code for Matane Airport in Quebec, Canada. Other related archivesAeolia, Aeolian, Asia Minor, Canada, Greek, ICAO, Matane Airport, Mysia, Quebec, botanical, flo

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387 BC - Events. Sparta and Persia sign the Peace of Antalcidas: Persia recognises the independence of the cities of Greece in exchange for dominion over Asia Minor and Cyprus. Rome is rebuilt after an invasion from Gaul. 387 BC - Births. 387 BC - Deaths. Category: 380s BC ...

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The Airyanem Vaejah (Aryan Expanse) was the legendary home of the Aryan (Indo-Iranian) people, as described in writings in the Avesta. Its location is debated, but many scholars place it eastern Asia Minor, Afghanistan or the Caucasus. See also. Aztlán, mythical origin of the Aztecs. Aryan race Aryan invasion theory Indo-Iranians ...

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Abydos, an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nagara Point on the Hellespont, which is here scarcely a mile broad. It probably was originally a Thracian town, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians. Here Xerxes crossed the strait on his bridge of boats in 480 B.C. when he invaded Greece. Abydos is celebrated for the vigorous resistance it made against Philip V of Macedon (200 BC), ...

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Capra aegagrus aegagrus Capra aegagrus blythi Capra aegagrus chialtanensis Capra aegagrus cretica Capra aegagrus hircus Capra aegagrus turcmenica The Wild Goat (Capra aegagrus) is a common type of goat. Wild Goats are terrestrial species found in Europe, Central Asia, Asia Minor, and the Middle East. Wild Goat - Social Structure. In the wild, goats live in flocks of 5-20 goats; males are solitary. Male goats go through a p ...

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Zenobia (or Xenobia) is the name commonly used for the daughter of (= "bat" or "bath") Zabaai ben Selim, an Arab chieftain. The widow of Septimius Odenathus, she reigned as Queen of Palmyra from 267 to 272 as regent for her infant son Vaballathus. Something of a militant, she embarked on a campaign of conquests that eventually saw her as the ruler of much of Syria and Asia Minor. Her professed goal was to defend the Eastern portion of ...

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Chalcedon (Χαλκεδον, sometimes transliterated by purists as Chalkedon; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor, almost directly opposite Byzantium, south of Scutari (modern Üsküdar). It was a Megarian colony founded on a site so obviously inferior to that which was within view on the opposite shore, that it received from ...

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