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Ionia (/ aɪ ˈ oʊ n i ə / eye-OH-nee-ə) [1] was an ancient region encompassing the central part of the western coast of Anatolia. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements. [citation needed] Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionians who had settled in the region before the archaic period.
Ionic Greek was a subdialect of the Attic–Ionic or Eastern dialect group of Ancient Greek. The Ionic group traditionally comprises three dialectal varieties that were spoken in Euboea (West Ionic), the northern Cyclades (Central Ionic), and from c. 1000 BC onward in Asiatic Ionia (East Ionic), where Ionian colonists from Athens founded their ...
Smyrna among the cities of Ionia and Lydia (c. 50 AD) Smyrna (/ ˈ s m ɜːr n ə / SMUR-nə; Ancient Greek: Σμύρνη, romanized: Smýrnē, or Σμύρνα, Smýrna) was an Ancient Greek city located at a strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia. Due to its advantageous port conditions, its ease of defence, and its good inland ...
Geographica provides a valuable source of information on the ancient world, especially when this information is corroborated by other sources. Within the books of Geographica is a map of Europe. Whole world maps according to Strabo are reconstructions from his written text.
Ephesus (/ ˈ ɛ f ɪ s ə s /; [1] [2] Ancient Greek: Ἔφεσος, romanized: Éphesos; Turkish: Efes; may ultimately derive from Hittite: 𒀀𒉺𒊭, romanized: Apaša) was a city in Ancient Greece [3] [4] on the coast of Ionia, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.
The Ionian Islands (Modern Greek: Ιόνια νησιά, Ionia nisia; Ancient Greek, Katharevousa: Ἰόνιαι Νῆσοι, Ioniai Nēsoi) are a group of islands in the Ionian Sea, west of mainland Greece.
Colophon (/ ˈ k ɒ l ə ˌ f ɒ n,-f ən /; [1] Ancient Greek: Κολοφών, romanized: Kolophṓn) was an ancient city in Ionia.Founded around the end of the 2nd millennium BC, it was likely one of the oldest of the twelve cities of the Ionian League.
The temple of Artemis in Sardis, capital of Lydia Tripolis on the Meander is an ancient Lydian city in Turkey. Büyük Menderes River also known as Maeander is a river in Lydia. Lydia is generally located east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish provinces of Uşak, Manisa and inland Izmir. [3]