Anatolia

Anatolia

Anatolia ranks 2,149th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind New South Wales, Torres Vedras, and Ivry-sur-Seine. Memorable people born in Anatolia include Michael VIII Palaiologos, Malhun Hatun, and Constantine X Doukas. Memorable people who died in Anatolia include Saint Christopher, Marcion of Sinope, and Antiochus II Theos. Anatolia has been the birth place of many politicians, and companions and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Anatolia is located in Türkiye.

Anatolia, also known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is geographically bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Turkish Straits to the northwest, and the Black Sea to the north. The eastern and southeastern limits have been expanded either to the entirety of Asiatic Turkey or to an imprecise line from the Black Sea to the Gulf of Alexandretta. Topographically, the Sea of Marmara connects the Black Sea with the Aegean Sea through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, and separates Anatolia from Thrace in Southeast Europe. Read more on Wikipedia