Difference between revisions of "Europe Minor"
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| − | * | + | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Minor Asia Minor]: the colonial name for Anatolia. |
| + | **just as the Isthmus of Sutton separates Howth from the rest of Ireland, so the Bosphorus separates Europe and Asia → wars between Greece and Persia, symbolizing the conflict between east and west, and between the new and the old | ||
| + | **Peloponnesian War between Sparta (on the Peloponnesian peninsula) and Athens (on the other side of the Isthmus of Corinth) → [[penisolate war]] | ||
Revision as of 04:58, 11 June 2006
- Asia Minor: the colonial name for Anatolia.
- just as the Isthmus of Sutton separates Howth from the rest of Ireland, so the Bosphorus separates Europe and Asia → wars between Greece and Persia, symbolizing the conflict between east and west, and between the new and the old
- Peloponnesian War between Sparta (on the Peloponnesian peninsula) and Athens (on the other side of the Isthmus of Corinth) → penisolate war
