Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

All around the Mediterranean Sea, Asia Minor, northern India, and Tibet, Hebrew was the native tongue.

He then traveled with Xenocrates to the court of his friend Hermias of Atarneus in Asia Minor.

The name of Apollo's mother Leto has Lydian origin, and she was worshipped on the coasts of Asia Minor.

The god seems to be related to Appaliunas, a tutelary god of Wilusa ( Troy ) in Asia Minor, but the word is not complete.

* At Clarus, on the west coast of Asia Minor ; as at Delphi a holy spring which gave off a pneuma, from which the priests drank.

A devastated Niobe fled to Mount Sipylos in Asia Minor and turned into stone as she wept.

Ancient regions of Asia Minor.

Asia Minor ( from, Mikrá Asía, small Asia ) is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey.

From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

In the 6th century BC the kingdom of Lydia almost expanded to the whole of Asia Minor, until it became a satrapy of the Persian Empire.

Following his death and the organisational deterioration of his empire, Asia Minor was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms which came under Roman control two hundred years later.

The ancient history of Asia Minor is very important for the history of the Western civilization because it was the region where the mythic way of thought changed gradually to the rational way of thought.

The name Asia Minor was given by the Latin author Orosios in the 4th century AD.

While not entirely synonymous with Anatolia, the term Asia Minor, derived from the Latin Asia Minores, refers to Asia inside the Roman Empire, versus Asia Magna, all of Asia beyond the borders.

Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.

The European sailors and merchants gave the name Levant to the west and south coasts of Asia Minor, including Syria.

* Greek Liberation of Asia Minor

The Dutch too used the word caste in their 19th century ethnography studies of Bali and other parts of southeast Asia.

South Asia too is another region in which armed irredentist movements have been active for almost a century, due to the Balkanization of North-East India, Burma and Bangladesh under British colonialism.

Kerosene lamps are widely used for lighting in rural areas of Asia and Africa where electrical distribution is not available or too costly for widespread use.

In addition to Hazmi and Mihdhar, two Yemenis were selected for a southeast Asia component of the plot, which was later scrapped for being too difficult to coordinate with the operations in the United States.

At this time, there was an East Asia component to the September 11 attacks plot, but Bin Laden later canceled it for being too difficult to coordinate with operations in the United States.

Spanish companies too have expanded into Asia, especially China and India.

But Tristram Hunt argues that Engels has become a convenient scapegoat, too easily blamed for the state crimes of the Soviet Union, Communist Southeast Asia and China.

Palmer declined to participate in a reunion, as he was too busy with commitments to Asia.

The Portuguese Court, which agreed with the figure provided by Eratosthenes, rejected Columbus ' proposal because they believed that the distance to Asia over the open Western Ocean was too great for the ship's crews to survive the journey without being able to make port and resupply.

The Dutch however were too stunned and confused for a coherent reaction, so after a month the English delegation disclosed a plan by Cromwell to divide the world into two spheres of influence: the Dutch could control Africa and Asia ; in return they would assist the English in conquering both Americas from the Spanish.

Of his two major works, Affairs in Asia ( Ta kata ten Asian ) in ten books, and Affairs in Europe ( Ta kata ten Europen ) in forty-nine books, only a few fragments survive, too few to provide us with any sense of the contents of either work.

Paraffin lamps are widely used for lighting in rural areas of Africa and Asia where electricity is not distributed, or is too costly.

In the Caucasus region, western Asia Minor, along the northern shores of the Black Sea, and even on the south coast of Iceland and on the Vestmannaeyjar, the species can be encountered all year, too.

The commercial risk of the company's business in Asia may be too high for a company owned by taxpayers.

Previously, in the 1840s when American companies began recruiting cheap, accessible labor from Asia to develop Hawaii and the frontier West, Taiwan was too small to be a target for recruiters.

As a result, the available forces — which could not be easily reinforced from Asia due to Greek control of the sea and the inadequacy of the Ottoman railway system — were dispersed too thinly across the region and failed to stand up to the rapidly mobilized Balkan armies.

There was no open conflict between the Greeks and Persia until 396 BC, when the Spartan king Agesilaus briefly invaded Asia Minor ; as Plutarch points out, the Greeks were far too busy overseeing the destruction of their own power to fight against the " barbarians ".

Some critics of the term argue that no universal " Asian " value system exists, because the cultural diversity of Asia is too great for there to be a single set of common values across the region.

Also, in his article " Democracy as a Universal Value ", Amartya Sen pointed out that no universal " Asian " value system could possibly exist, because the cultural diversity of Asia is far too great for there to be a single set of common values across the region.

The sharing of some haplotypes between the Iyers and some Southeast Asian populations, too, suggest a migration through Southeast Asia to India.

The head of the Pattani Dutch trading post, Victor Sprinckel, refused on the ground that he was too busy dealing with Portuguese opposition in Southeast Asia.

I had gotten out onto the wild routes of Asia too early, I had perceived too much of the splendor and magnificence of the Orient, the silence of the deserts and the loneliness of long journeys.

It was found a few years later in Sri Lanka too, which reignited the now already one and a half century old debate on the origin of cacti in Africa and Asia.