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ancient Middle East. Ionia, ancient region comprising the central sector of the western coast of Anatolia (now in Turkey). It was bounded by the regions of Aeolis on the north and Caria on the south and included the adjacent islands. Ionia consisted of a coastal strip about 25 miles (40 km) wide that extended from Phocaea at the mouth of the ...
- Aeolis
Aeolis, group of ancient cities on the west coast of...
- Erythrae
Erythrae, ancient Ionic city on the Mimas (now Kara Burun)...
- Clazomenae
Clazomenae, ancient Ionian Greek city, located about 20...
- Aeolis
- Name & Early History
- Lydia & Scientific Revolution
- Persia & The Ionian Revolt
- Alexander & The Romans
- Conclusion
According to Herodotus (l.c. 484-425/413 BCE), the Ionians took their name from Ion, the legendary king of Athens, who divided the people into four tribes in establishing social order. They were closely associated with Athens but regarded themselves as Ionians, not Athenians, though Herodotus notes how this claim was essentially meaningless: The Io...
Ionia was conquered completely by Croesus of Lydia (r. 560-546 BCE) whose predecessors had continued Gyges’ policies toward the region. Herodotus notes: Even so, Croesus was no despot and allowed the Ionian city-states significant autonomy. He also contributed to public works in the cities, most famously through his donation to the rebuilding of th...
Thales served in the Lydian army as an engineer when Croesus, misinterpreting the message from the Oracle at Delphi to mean he would conquer the Achaemenid Empire, launched the campaign that led to his defeat. Croesus fought Cyrus II to a draw at the Battle of Pteria and then withdrew to demobilize for the winter in 547 BCE, but Cyrus II ignored th...
The Persians reestablished control over the region but lost it after their defeat at the Battle of Marathon in 490 after the First Persian Invasion of Greece. Ionia then allied with the Delian League of Athens against the Persians until Athens lost the Second Peloponnesian War in 404 BCE at which time it was under the control of Sparta and then ret...
Ionia continued under the Attalids until 129 BCE when Eumenes II, a pretender to the Attalid throne, led a revolt which was quickly crushed and, afterwards, the region was annexed along with the rest of Anatolia as the Roman Province of Asia. Under the Attalids, the Library of Pergamon was established, the most famous intellectual center of the age...
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Persian satrapy. Yauna. Roman province. Asia. Ionia ( / aɪˈoʊniə / eye-OH-nee-ə) [1] was an ancient region on the western coast of Anatolia, to the south of present-day İzmir, Turkey. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements [citation needed].
May 29, 2018 · Ionia Historic region on the w coast of Asia Minor ( Turkey ), including the neighbouring Aegean islands. The area was settled by people from Mycenae in Greece in the 11th and 10th centuries bc. Miletus and Ephesus became the most important of the prosperous Ionian cities. Ionia was conquered by the Persians in the 6th century bc, then fell ...
Dec 28, 2022 · Ionia was a region of ancient Greece located on the shores of Asia Minor, or modern-day Turkey. The Ionian people were originally from mainland Greece, but sailed across the Aegean Sea and began ...
- Ionia was important because it was a major center of trade and philosophy in the ancient period. However, it declined as a result of the annihilati...
- Ionia is known for being a wealthy region of ancient Greece. Its most prosperous city was Miletus, which was a major center of trade and philosophy.
- The Ionian people were from mainland Greece and settled on the shores of Asia Minor. They intermarried with other ethnic groups over the years.
- Today, most of Ionia is part of Turkey. The coastal islands are part of Greece, however. This was a result of the wars and violence perpetrated in...
Sep 27, 2023 · Ionia was a territory in western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) populated by the Ionians (Greeks who spoke the Ionian dialect) in c. 1150 BCE. It is best known as the birthplace of Greek philosophy (at Miletus) and the site of the Ionian Revolt which prompted the Persian invasion of Greece in 490 and 480 BCE.
Ionia , Ancient region, western coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey) bordering the Aegean Sea. It consisted of a coastal strip that extended from the mouth of the Hermus River to the Halicarnassus Peninsula, a distance of 100 mi (160 km). In the 8th century bc there were 12 major Greek cities in the region, including Phocaea, Erythrae, Colophon ...
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