Situated at the mouth of the Meander in the south of the province of Ionia in Western Anatolia, the ancient city of Miletus was the oldest and the most powerful of the twelve Ionian cities in Asia Minor.
Formal mother worship, with ceremonies to Cybele, or Rhea, the great Mother of the Gods[sic], was performed in the Ides of March throughout Asia Minor.
During his third missionary journey Paul reached Ephesus from the"upper coasts"(Acts 19:1), i.e., from the inland parts of Asia Minor, and tarried here for about three years;
I am not sure what kind of situation it refers to concretely but anyway Paul considered that there was no possibility about work in Asia Minor or the Greek district and because of that, he had a dream of going to Spain.
Antioch, extending over Syria from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates as far as any Orthodox live so far East, touching the Great Church along the frontier of Asia Minor to the north and Palestine to the south, with twelve metropolitans and two or three titular bishops who form the patriarchal curia.
The marriage was for political reasons as they both claimed the throne of Macedonia/ Thrace(by the time of his death Lysimachus was ruler of both regions, and his power extended to south Greece and Asia Minor as well).
After having ruled for more than six hundred years with hideous tyranny and violence, from the Caucasus and the Caspian to the Persian Gulf, and from beyond the Tigris to Asia Minor and Egypt, it vanished like a dream"(Nah 2:6).
In ancient geography, Cappadocia or Capadocia, Turkish Kapadokya from Greek: Καππαδοκία/ Kappadokía, which in turn is from the Persian: Katpatuka meaning"the land of beautiful horses", was the name of an extensive inland district of Asia Minor(modern Turkey).
When he reached Troas, at the northwest corner of Asia Minor, on his second great missionary journey in company with Timothy and Silvanus, or Silas(who was a"prophet" and had the confidence of The Twelve), he met St. Luke, probably for the first time.
That is to say, the Liturgy that became famous as the use of the patriarchal church of Antioch, that through the influence of that Church spread throughout Syria and Asia Minor, and was the starting point of the development of the Byzantine rite, is itself originally the local liturgy, not of Antioch, but of Jerusalem.
The Evangelist's intention of visiting Asia Minor was probably carried out, for St. Paul, writing shortly before his death to Timothy at Ephesus, bids him pick up Mark and bring him with him to Rome, adding"for he is profitable to me for the ministry"(2 Timothy 4:11).
The History of Apples The apples that are currently grown throughout the world are thought to be a hybrid of the wild apples that grew natively in Asia Minor and Europe, and they were already being cultivated by the 13th century BC. During the period of ancient Rome they became widespread across Europe, and in the 17th century they crossed with immigrants to the Americas.
With the departure of most ethnic Turks and Greeks and the arrival of Bulgarians from inland, Northern Dobruja, Bessarabia, and Asia Minor, and later, of refugees from Macedonia, Eastern Thrace and Southern Dobruja following the Balkan Wars and the First World War, ethnic diversity gave way to Bulgarian predominance, although sizeable minorities of Gagauz, Armenians, and Sephardic Jews remained for decades.
Over the first decades after liberation, with the departure of most ethnic Turks and Greeks and the arrival of Bulgarians from inland, Northern Dobruja, Bessarabia, and Asia Minor, and later, of refugees from Macedonia, Eastern Thrace and Southern Dobruja following the Second Balkan War and the First World War, ethnic diversity gave way to Bulgarian predominance, although sizeable minorities of Gagauz, Armenians, and Sephardic Jews remained for decades.
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