Explore Anatolia through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like peninsula. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Anatolia meaning
A peninsula in West Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. Bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Armenian Highland to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.
Synonyms of Anatolia
Using Anatolia
- The main meaning on this page is: A peninsula in West Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. Bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Armenian Highland to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.
- Useful related words include: asia minor, peninsula.
- In the example corpus, anatolia often appears in combinations such as: in anatolia, of anatolia, anatolia and.
Context around Anatolia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Anatolia
- In this selection, "anatolia" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, western, central, eastern, eastern, basin and follows stand out and add context to how "anatolia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include age from anatolia and all about anatolia. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "anatolia" sits close to words such as abeokuta, abstained and acupuncture, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with anatolia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Anatolia's menu has a range of freshly baked breads. (10 words)
Aylin Oney Tan, a Turkish culinary researcher, concurs that it is all about Anatolia. (14 words)
The interior areas are divided into three regions: Central Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia and Southeastern Anatolia. (15 words)
While elaborating on the battle, Körpe said: "This battle is of great importance as it marked Alexander’s first major victory, leading him to conquer Western Anatolia and later all of Asia, including as far as India. (37 words)
Anatolia is also open for breakfast, and Tania recommends the Anatolian Big Breakfast which is a Mediterranean-style meal of many small dishes: fresh gozleme, fresh fruits, cucumber, tomato, feta, haloumi, and egg with sucuk sausage. (36 words)
Anatolia said: "We never really did anything big in terms of renovation until three years ago when we decided to do a complete makeover starting with demolishing the extension we had and build a bigger one. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
The interior areas are divided into three regions: Central Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia and Southeastern Anatolia.
Although the Hittite kingdom disappeared from Anatolia at this point, there emerged a number of so-called Neo-Hittite kingdoms in Anatolia and northern Syria.
Anatolia was one of the first places where Christianity spread, so that by the 4th century AD, western and central Anatolia were overwhelmingly Christian and Greek-speaking.
Luwian is closely related to Hittite, and was among the languages spoken during the second and first millennia BC by population groups in central Anatolia, Anatolia (from Greek Aνατολή Anatolē—"East"; also Asia Minor.
Rather than taking the coastal road around Anatolia through Christian-held territory, by which he sent most of his noncombatants, Conrad took his army across Anatolia.
This system of terminology, however, is not convenient for southeast Anatolia and settlements of the middle Anatolia basin.
Anatolia is also open for breakfast, and Tania recommends the Anatolian Big Breakfast which is a Mediterranean-style meal of many small dishes: fresh gozleme, fresh fruits, cucumber, tomato, feta, haloumi, and egg with sucuk sausage.
Anatolia's menu has a range of freshly baked breads.
Co-winner of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix, Once Upon A Time in Anatolia follows a police chief, doctor, prosecutor, suspects and diggers searching for a body in the vast countryside.
Since sources claim that Phrygians migrated from the Balkans, archaeological finds of Balkan pottery in western Anatolia in the 12th century BC is likely a trace of this migration.
Anatolia said: "We never really did anything big in terms of renovation until three years ago when we decided to do a complete makeover starting with demolishing the extension we had and build a bigger one.
Byzantine soldiers guarding the border would have drawn from the ethnic Greeks, Armenians as well as other groups who had settled in Anatolia.
In one of the darkest chapters in Greece’s long history, the Pontic Genocide included an organized plan by the Young Turks to eliminate the indigenous Greek population of Anatolia.
Saffron, which has a 3,500-year history in Safranbolu, was traded in Western Anatolia during the Byzantine period and maintained its importance during the Ottoman period.
These thieves of the sea regularly roamed the rugged region of Cilicia Trachea in southern Anatolia.
While elaborating on the battle, Körpe said: "This battle is of great importance as it marked Alexander’s first major victory, leading him to conquer Western Anatolia and later all of Asia, including as far as India.
Bursa, an area located in northwestern Anatolia, within the Marmara Region of Turkey, was once a great See of the church.
The early Neolithic farmers they descended from likely migrated thousands of years prior to the Bronze Age from Anatolia.
The history does begin in the early 16th century, when the Ottoman Empire, founded in western Anatolia by Sunni Turks, began to expand eastward, only to conflict with the Shiite Safavid Empire in Persia.
Aylin Oney Tan, a Turkish culinary researcher, concurs that it is all about Anatolia.
Common combinations with anatolia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in anatolia 23×
- of anatolia 18×
- anatolia and 15×
- central anatolia 11×
- from anatolia 10×
- western anatolia 8×
- anatolia in 7×
- southern anatolia 5×
- southeastern anatolia 4×
- southeast anatolia 4×