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Ionia

NOUN
  1. region of western Asia Minor colonized by ancient Greeks

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  • The eldest school of Greek philosophy, called the Ionian, was founded by Thales of Miletus, about the middle of the sixth century B.C. Mosaics of Grecian History
  • Hecataeus had acted as adviser in the so-called Ionian rebellion, when in 500 B.C. the Greeks of Asia Minor rose up against the Persians, who, about half a century earlier, had subjected them to their rule. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • He was a powerful monarch, -- so powerful that the Greeks, who had built cities all along the coast of Asia Minor, in the country called Ionia, never spoke of him except as "The Great King. The Story of the Greeks
  • Macareus was a son of Crinacus the son of Zeus as Hesiod says ... and dwelt in Olenus in the country then called Ionian, but now Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • Polykrates became "the first of all cities, Hellenic or barbaric," a center of Ionian manners, luxury, art, science and culture, the seat of the first great thalassocracy or sea-power after that of Cretan Minos, a distributing point for commerce and colonies. [ Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
  • Her Euboian ally Eretria added five, and may have sent more to join the Ionian fleet in the Levant.
  • Sent to pacify Ionia, after several Ionian repulses, he dared not return to Susa and so departed for his Thracian project.
  • Propped up at one end by a broken-off marble Ionian capital is a long, slanting wooden board, suggesting a collapsed catafalque.
  • It is a big sweep of soft, pale coral sand shelving gently into the Ionian sea. The Sun
  • The Pocklington tyros which inspired the Percy Roaders to a 54-5 win over Hull Ionians Hawks last week will miss out for the club's final Yorkshire Two clash of the season against West Leeds.
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