小亚细亚
Asia Minor

亦称安纳托利亚（Anatolia）
土耳其语作Anadolu
地处亚洲最西端之半岛，介于黑海和地中海之间，还滨临爱琴海。因地处欧亚两洲交接地带，自有文明始，即为两大陆多数民族迁徙或争占之十字路口。原为西台王国（约西元前1950～1200）所在地，后来印欧语系民族（可能是希腊人）建立了弗里吉亚王国。西元前6世纪，居鲁士大帝统治该区。西元前334年亚历山大大帝侵占了安纳托利亚。西元前1世纪时，罗马人开始扩张到这里，西元395年罗马帝国分裂，这里属拜占庭帝国。此区后来仍不断遭到阿拉伯人、土耳其人、蒙古人和帖木儿的突厥军队入侵直至15世纪鄂图曼帝国建立霸权为止。后来的历史（到1920年）即是鄂图曼帝国的历史。

The part of Turkey in Asia. The peninsula forms the western extremity of Asia, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea; it also borders on the Aegean Sea. Because of its location at the point where Asia and Europe meet, it has long been the scene of numerous migrations and conquests. It was the original location of the Kingdom of Hittites (c. 1950-1200 BC). Later, Indo-European races, possibly Greeks, established the Phrygian kingdom. In the 6th century BC, Cyrus the Great ruled the area; it was invaded by Alexander the Great in 334 BC. In the 1st century BC, the Romans began expanding there, and when the Roman empire was split in AD 395 it fell to the Byzantine empire. The area endured invasions by Arabs, Turks, Mongols, and the Turkic army of Timur before Ottoman power was established in the 15th century; its later history to 1920 is that of the Ottoman empire.