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Asia Minor
Asia Minor (Anatolia) Great peninsula of
w Asia making up most of modern Turkey. The
Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the
Dardanelles divide both Turkey and Europe from Asia. Apart from a very narrow coastal plain, the area is a high, arid plateau. In the
se, the Taurus Range rises to more than 3750m (12,000ft). The area has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, with civilizations such as Troy. The
Hittites established a kingdom here in
c.1800 bc. From the 8th century
bc, the Greeks established colonies in the area; the Persians invaded in the 6th century
bc and the
Persian Wars followed.
Alexander the Great's empire included this region, although it split into several states after his death. The Romans unified the area in the 2nd century
ad. by the 6th century it had become part of the Byzantine empire. In the 13th–15th centuries it was conquered by the Ottoman Turks and remained part of the Ottoman Empire until the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923.
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Asia Impact-States
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/6/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Indonesia, down 88 percent; to Thailand, down 24 percent; paper products to Asia, down 52 percent. Alaska: To Asia, down 41 percent; lumber and wood products to Asia, down 52 percent. Arizona: To Asia, down 31 percent; to Japan, down 55...
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Asia-Links Announces Regional HQ in Asia Pacific in Partnership with Asia Pathways.
Business Wire; 9/17/2001; 700+ words
; ...SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2001 Asia-Links, a US-based leading provider of technology...conducting business-to-business e-commerce with Asia, announced its opening of an office in Asia in association with Asia Pathways of Singapore...
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Asia Global Crossing to Move to the New York Stock Exchange.
PR Newswire; 6/19/2001; 700+ words
; ...HONG KONG, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Asia Global Crossing Ltd. (Nasdaq: AGCX...listing, Gary Winnick, chairman of Asia Global Crossing and its parent company Global Crossing, and John Legere, Asia Global Crossing chief executive officer...
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ASIA GLOBAL CROSSING TO MOVE TO THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
PR Newswire; 6/19/2001; 700+ words
; ...This press release is transmitted on behalf of Asia Global Crossing Ltd Hong Kong - Asia Global Crossing Ltd. (Nasdaq: AGCX), today...celebrate the listing, Gary Winnick, chairman of Asia Global Crossing and its parent company Global Crossing...
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Asia Pay Announces Quarterly Results: 68% Gross Profit Margin.
PR Newswire; 5/19/2005; 700+ words
; ...May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Asia Payment Systems, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD...results, Matt Mecke, President and CEO of Asia Pay, stated, "The results for our first...markets we serve." Matt Mecke continued, "Asia Payment Systems, Inc. is still in the...
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ASIA: ASIA NOT THREAT TO EUROPE.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 5/1/2005; 700+ words
; Europe should view a rising Asia as an opportunity not a threat. In a...address at the World Economic Forum's Asia Roundtable, Peter Mandelson, Commissioner...position themselves to take advantage of Asia's rise, or risk being marginalized...
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Asia Society Southern California Announces Bold New Leadership.
PR Newswire; 5/24/2005; 700+ words
; ...China Relations to Be the Primary Focus for Asia Society Southern California LOS ANGELES, May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Asia Society Southern California announced today...Tang and Jordan have committed to focusing Asia Society Southern California on fostering...
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Asia Pay Announces Director Benny Lee to Join Management Team in China.
PR Newswire; 5/25/2005; 700+ words
; ...May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Asia Payment Systems, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD...s board of directors, will be joining Asia Pay's executive team as Executive Director...in China and will working closely with Asia Pay's CEO and other executives as the...
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Asia Pay Implements ClearCommerce Payment and Fraud Solution for New Credit Card Processing Service in Asia.
PR Newswire; 5/10/2004; 700+ words
; Asia Payment Systems, Inc. (Asia Pay) (BULLETIN BOARD: APYM) is pleased to announce today that...leading payment and fraud prevention solution, as a part of the Asia Pay credit card processing platform deployed throughout Asia and...
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Asia Pulse monitors the region's business. (Asia Pulse Pte. Ltd.)
Newspaper article from: The Information Advisor; 6/1/1997; 700+ words
; ...source of intelligence on countries in Asia, and geared specifically for business researchers. On April 18th, Asia Pulse Pte. Ltd., headquartered in Australia...Retrieval, Lexis-Nexis, and Profound. Asia Pulse is a Singapore-registered firm...
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Asia
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Asia World's largest continent. Entirely in...the Equator in Indonesia. Land On the w , Asia's boundary with Europe follows a line through...the Caucasus. Geographically, Europe and Asia are one enormous continent (Eurasia) but...
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Southeast Asia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Southeast Asia region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4...the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. The name "Southeast Asia" came into popular use after World War II and has replaced such phrases...
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Central Asia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
CENTRAL ASIA The notion of "Central Asia" for Russia was the result of a gradual, often haphazard advance...not until the twentieth century that one saw the term "Central Asia and Kazakhstan" noted. Politically, it still is often restricted...
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South Asia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging
SOUTH ASIA South Asia is the region approximately encompassed in the Indian subcontinent...therefore a younger age structure. In the 1950s fertility across South Asia was uniformly high (see Table 1). By 2000 Sri Lanka, India, and...
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Women's History: Asia
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Women's History: Asia The prominent roles occupied by women in the legends and myths of that complex and diverse part of the world called Asia suggest that "histories" of women in Asia have existed for a very long time. That these legends...
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