It is believed to have been composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia.

Ionia ( Ancient Greek Ἰωνία or Ἰωνίη ) is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir, which was historically Smyrna.

The first event in the history of Ionia for which there is a trustworthy account is the inroad of the Cimmerii, who ravaged a great part of Asia Minor, including Lydia, and sacked Magnesia on the Maeander, but were foiled in their attack upon Ephesus.

It has been thought that the Ionian migration from Greece carried with it some part of a population which retained the artistic traditions of the Mycenaean civilization, and so caused the birth of the Ionic school ; but whether this was so or not, it is certain that from the 8th century BC onwards we find the true spirit of Hellenic art, stimulated by commercial intercourse with eastern civilizations, working out its development chiefly in Ionia and its neighbouring isles.

The Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Urdu name for Greece is Younan ( یونان ), a transliteration of " Ionia.

A complete list is preserved in the catalog of Herodotus, beginning from Ionia and listing the other satrapies from west to east excluding Persis which was the land of the Persians and the only province which was not a conquered land.

* Among the refugees arriving from Ionia after the collapse of the Ionian Revolt is a chief named Miltiades, who has a fine reputation as a soldier.

However, Chabrias ' fleet is defeated and he is killed in its attack on the island of Chios, off the coast of Ionia.

Even so he is fined and forced to retire from Athens to Lampsacus in Ionia.

The month Anthesterion is named after the festival, not vice versa, and since the month's name is not restricted to the Attic calendar, but was known also in Ionia, it was considered by the Ancients that the festival predates the Ionian colonisation, making it the oldest datable part of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Ionia County is a county in the U. S. state of Michigan.

The county seat is Ionia.

Ionia is a city in Chickasaw County, Iowa, United States.

Ionia is located at ( 43. 034493 ,-92. 456606 ).

* Hubbardston is a village in the northwest part of the township on the boundary with North Plains Township in Ionia County.

* Elmira is a historic locale in the township along Ionia Road about three miles south of M-79 at.

* Kalamo is a small unincorporated community in the township along Ionia Road about two miles south of M-79 at.

Belding is a city in Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan, completely surrounded by Otisco Township, Michigan.

Berlin Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

* The city of Ionia is adjacent to the northeast and has incorporated a small portion of land in the township.

Boston Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Campbell Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

They in turn took it from ancient Sumer so long ago that if the connection between cubits and degrees was known in either Babylonia or Ionia it did not survive.

These Greeks served as soldiers, artisans, statesmen and mariners for Darius ; however, Greek fear of the strength of Darius's kingdom became strong and the constant interference by the Greeks in Ionia and Lydia were all stepping stones in the conflict that was yet to come between Persia and Greece.

In 502 BC an unsuccessful attack on Naxos by Persian forces led several prominent men in the Greek cities of Ionia to rebel against the Persian Empire in the Ionian Revolt, and then to the Persian War between Greece and Persia.

His grandson Gras founded a city Aeolis, between Ionia and Mysia.

The tavern was later a stop on the stage line between Ionia and Greenville.

It was likely one the oldest of the twelve Ionian League cities, between Lebedos ( 120 stadia to the west ) and Ephesus ( to its south ) and its ruins are in the eponymously named modern region of Ionia.

The collision between the fractious political world of the Greeks and the enormous empire of the Persians began when Cyrus the Great conquered Ionia in 547 BC.

Krausidonas is the major river passing through the city, and constitutes the natural lung of the urbanized area of Volos, as well as the boundary between the major municipalities of the metropolitan city, the municipalities of Volos and Nea Ionia.

The superhighway, the Ionia Odos ( Ionian Motorway ) which will run centrally bypassing communities began construction in 2001 at a part between Messolonghi and the curve, this section remains to be unpaved, the rest of the highway is in plan but the opening date is not yet set.

The suburb was named after Ionia, the region in Anatolia from which many Greeks migrated in the 1920s following the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey.

M-21 was designated along the highway by July 1, 1919 between Ionia and Goodells near Port Huron.

After the battle all the Lydian lands were annexed by the Persian empire including the Greek cities of Ionia and Aeolis, which led to conflict between Greece and Persia.

He also travelled to Ionia, to study the difference between the pleasure-loving Ionians and the sober Cretans, as doctors study the difference between the sick and the healthy.

: The Ionian Revolt was a series of conflicts between the Ionia and the Persian Empire that began 499 BC and lasted until 493 BC.

Its body was a product of Ionia Manufacturing which built all Buick station wagon bodies between 1946 and 1964.

This point is in present-day Boston Township, Ionia County between Saranac and Lowell.

Clarksville is a village in Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Danby Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Easton Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Ionia Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Keene Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Lyons is a village in Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Lyons Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Muir is a village in Lyons Township, Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

North Plains Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Odessa Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Orange Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Orleans Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Otisco Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Pewamo is a village in Lyons Township, Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Portland is a city in Ionia County of the U. S. state of Michigan.

Portland Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Ronald Township is a civil township of Ionia County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Ronald Township was formed in 1845 from parts of Lyons and Ionia townships, and given its name by state representative A. L. Roof, who said he was inspired by the lead character in a novel he was reading at the time.