Asia Minor

Asia Minor describes the peninsula, on the West side of Asia, that starts at an imaginary line from the Gulf of Alexandretta until Trabzon on the Black Sea. It is surrounded by the Black Sea on the North, the Aegean Sea on the West and the Mediterranean on the South. On the Western side it nearly touches the continent of Europe from which it is separated by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara (Propontis) and the Dardanelles (Hellespont).

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Asia Minor lies east of the Bosporus, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.