Ancient regions of Anatolia


The following is a list of regions of Ancient Anatolia, also known as "Asia Minor." The names reflect changes to languages, settlements and polities from the Bronze Age to conquest by Turkic peoples.

Bronze Age

Iron Age

Classical

Regions sometimes included in Anatolia

Note: Over time the regions did not always were the same and had the same size or the same borders and sometimes included different subregions, districts, divisions or parts or were united with others.
The names of many regions ended in "e" that was the Eastern Greek equivalent to the Western Greek "a" and also to the Latin "a" .
In Ancient Greek the "ph" represented the consonants p and h pronounced closely and not the f consonant.
In Ancient Greek the "y" represented the vowel and not the semivowel or the vowels or .

Byzantine Anatolian Themes">Theme (Byzantine district)">Themes (circa 1000 AD)

The Themata were combined Military and Administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire which replaced the Roman provincial system in the 7th-8th century and reached their height in the 9th and 10th centuries.
Ducates or Catepanates

Regions sometimes included in Anatolia