Asia Minor

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The term Asia Minor (Greek: Μικρά Ασία) denotes the peninsula bounded on the north by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, or Propontis, on the west by the Aegean and on the south by the Mediterranean, while on the east it is separated from the main continent of Asia by Armenian highlands and the Euphrates. The term Asia Minor and the later term Anatolia (Greek: Ανατολία) are usually considered to be synonymous despite some slight distinctions.

Asia Minor is home to various historic regions of significance to Greeks, including Bithynia, Cappadocia, Ionia, Lydia, Lycia, Mysia, Pisidia and Pontus, amongst others.

Greek Population

At the start of the Twentieth Century the Greek population of Asia Minor numbered approximately two million. Greeks lived throughout Asia Minor, but there was a considerable concentration of Greeks in costal regions.

Suggested Reading

• Greek Patriarchate, Persecution of the Greeks in Turkey 1914-1918, Constantinople (Hesperia Press, London), 1919.
• Les Persecutions antihelleniques en Turquie, depuis le debut de la guerre europeenne: D'apres les rapports officiels des agents diplomatiques et consulaires, Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1918.
• Mark H. Ward, The Deportations in Asia Minor 1921-1922, Anglo-Hellenic League & British Armenia Committee, London, 1922.
• Επιτροπή των εν Μυτιλήνη Μικρασιατών Προσφύγων, Διωγμοί των Ελλήνων εν Θράκη και Μικρασία: Αυθεντικαί εκθέσεις και επίσημα κείμενα: Έκκλησις προς το ελληνικόν γένος και την δημοσίαν Γνώμην του πεπολιτισμένου κόσμου, Πανελληνίου Κράτους, Αθήνα, 1915.