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Anatolia
a-nuh-TOH-lee-uh
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The peninsula comprising most of modern Turkey, bounded by the Black, Aegean, and Mediterranean seas.
"Ancient trade routes crossed Anatolia between Europe and Asia."
Word Forms
Anatolias plural
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, "sunrise, the east"), because it lay east of Greece.