• Always to other Mid-East, Asia, or Asia Minor countries (yes, Turkey straddles both continents, in so many ways).

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  • In the early second century, a majority of bishops in Asia Minor voted to condemn the text as blasphemous.

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  • The famous Hellenistic science, grown on the shore of Asia Minor, on the Ionio sea, with Talete, died in Alessandria after six or seven centuries.

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  • The latter group included many Greeks living in Asia Minor, who had been liberated from alien barbarian Persian domination by Alexander, and who worshipped him as a god.

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  • This comprised one city each on the islands of Chios and Samos and ten on the mainland of Asia Minor opposite, namely, Phocaea, Clazomenae, Erythrae, Teos, Lebedus, Colophon, Ephesus, Priene, Myus, and Miletus.

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  • But I do not think it has ever occurred to me with such poignancy as in Izmir, the city the Greeks once called Smyrna, before their 3, 000-year-old living presence in Asia Minor was all but expunged.

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  • Lithuania's occupation by Russia and later by the Soviet Union did not make it part of Eastern Europe, as the occupation of Hungary and the Balkans by Turkey did not make them part of Asia Minor.

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  • When, in 1919, Ataturk set out to turn Asia Minor into a modern nation state, he was opposed not only by the Allied armies which had occupied important bits of it, but also by the imperial government that employed him.

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  • It is unclear when parts of Asia and Asia Minor began using immunotherapy to prevent smallpox deaths, but in the early 18th century, Lady Mary Worthley Montagu, an English aristocrat stationed in Istanbul, made note of the practice and brought it back to England.

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  • The document for submission to the Memory of the World Register is the Deed of Endowment of the Rab' i-Rashidi, and details the justification for the complex, the management system, administration and the budget of the endowed properties, which included land in present-day Afghanistan, Asia Minor, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq and Syria.

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  • Currently, Japanese investors are minor players in real estate outside Asia, according to Jones Lang LaSalle.

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  • The wetland, which includes the coastal Unryul Migratory Birds Reserve, play an important conservation role as habitats for shore birds and critical areas for many migratory bird species of north-east Asia such as black-faced spoonbill (Platalea minor), Chinese egret (Egretta eulophotes) and red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis).

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  • When he took over in 1967, AIG was a minor American property-and-casualty insurer with a life-insurance business based in Asia.

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  • Despite minor blips, these bourses have remained close to their peaks, buoyed in part by money fleeing Asia and other emerging economies such as Russia and Brazil.

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