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Definition of Asia Minor

Asia Minor
Minor Mi"nor, a. [L., a comparative with no positive; akin to AS. min small, G. minder less, OHG. minniro, a., min, adv., Icel. minni, a., minnr, adv., Goth. minniza, a., mins, adv., Ir. & Gael. min small, tender, L. minuere to lessen, Gr. ?, Skr. mi to damage. Cf. Minish, Minister, Minus, Minute.] 1. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body. 2. (Mus.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor (Geog.), the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. Minor mode (Mus.), that mode, or scale, in which the third and sixth are minor, -- much used for mournful and solemn subjects. Minor orders (Eccl.), the rank of persons employed in ecclesiastical offices who are not in holy orders, as doorkeepers, acolytes, etc. Minor scale (Mus.) The form of the minor scale is various. The strictly correct form has the third and sixth minor, with a semitone between the seventh and eighth, which involves an augmented second interval, or three semitones, between the sixth and seventh, as, ^6/F, ^7/G[sharp], ^8/A. But, for melodic purposes, both the sixth and the seventh are sometimes made major in the ascending, and minor in the descending, scale, thus:

Meaning of Asia Minor from wikipedia

- The Asia Minor Gr****s (Gr****: Μικρασιάτες, romanized: Mikrasiates), also known as Asiatic Gr****s or Anatolian Gr****s, make up the ethnic Gr**** po****tions...
- February 281 by Seleucus I Nikator, thus handing the Seleucid kingdom control of Asia Minor, and in August or September 281 when Seleucus p****ed through the Troad...
- known as Asia Minor, is a peninsula in West Asia that makes up the majority of the land area of Turkey. It is the westernmost protrusion of Asia and is...
- Look up Asia Minor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Asia Minor is an alternative name for Anatolia, the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising...
- contradictory promises about post-war arrangements concerning Gr**** hopes in Asia Minor. The western Allies, particularly British Prime Minister David Lloyd George...
- The Asia Minor Slavs were the historical South Slav communities relocated by the Byzantine Empire from the Balkans to Asia Minor (Anatolia). After Maurice's...
- The Army of Asia Minor (Gr****: Στρατιά Μικράς Ασίας) was a field army of the ****enic Army which was stationed in Anatolia during the Greco-Turkish War...
- "Asia Minor" is a 1961 instrumental recording by Jimmy Wisner (operating under the name Kokomo so as to not alienate his jazz fans). It is a rock and roll...
- migrated from Greece to Asia Minor in mythic times. The story is attested from the classical period. Herodotus states that in Asia the Ionians kept the division...
- under their leaders Leonnorius and Lutarius. These invaders appeared in Asia Minor in 278–277 BC; others invaded Macedonia, killed the Ptolemaic ruler Ptolemy...