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.

Modern cultures in this region, many of whom claim some of these ancient people as ancestors, contain a striking range of diversity in lifestyles, social organization, language and religious beliefs.

Modern Armenia term means Republic of Armenia which occupies part of historical Armenia, whose ancient centers were in the valley of the Araks River and the region around Lake Van in Turkey.

Amphipolis (: Amphípolis ) was an ancient Greek city in the region once inhabited by the Edoni people in the present-day region of Central Macedonia.

One theory is that they or part of them dwelt or moved among other coastal people perhaps confederated up to the basin of the Saale ( in the neighbourhood of the ancient canton of Engilin ) on the Unstrut valleys below the Kyffhäuserkreis, from which region the Lex Angliorum et Werinorum hoc est Thuringorum is believed by many to have come.

Edgar Cayce first mentioned Atlantis in 1923 and later suggested that it was originally a continent-sized region extending from the Azores to the Bahamas, holding an ancient, highly evolved civilization which had ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal.

* or Areian: the designation of an inhabitant of Aria ( a region in the eastern part of the Persian empire ; today's Herat ), used by the ancient and medieval Greeks ( as Ἄρ ( ε ) ιοι / Ar ( e ) ioi ) and Romans ( as Arii ).

* Brittany or Lesser Britain, a region of France settled by ancient Britons

The Bastarnae or Basternae () were an ancient Germanic tribe, who between 200 BC and 300 AD inhabited the region between the eastern Carpathian mountains and the Dnieper river ( corresponding to the modern Republic of Moldova and western part of southern Ukraine ).

The first cereal grains were domesticated about 12, 000 years ago by ancient farming communities in the Fertile Crescent region.

The Etruscan language was spoken and written by the Etruscan civilization, in what is present-day Italy, in the ancient region of Etruria ( modern Tuscany plus western Umbria and northern Latium ) and in parts of Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna ( where the Etruscans were displaced by Gauls ).

The Greek government opposes the use of the name without any qualification such as ' Republic of Northern Macedonia ' to the post-1991 constitutional name of its northern neighbour, citing historical and territorial concerns resulting from the ambiguity between the terms Republic of Macedonia, the Greek region of Macedonia and the ancient kingdom of Macedon, which falls within Greek Macedonia.

" Kush " is often incorrectly translated as Ethiopia, which was also known as Cush, but in this case thought to be referring to Cossaea, a Greek name for Elam, immediately to the east of ancient Babylon, which, unlike Ethiopia, does lie within the region being described.

The earliest known systematic historical thought in the Western world emerged in ancient Greece, a development which would be an important influence on the writing of history elsewhere around the Mediterranean region.

* The Hebrews, an ancient people of the Levant region

* Ionia, an ancient region in western Anatolia, in which the Ionian settlers established some colonies.

The earliest prehistoric cultures of Lebanon, such as the Qaraoun culture gave rise to the civilization of the Canaanite period, when the region was populated by ancient peoples, cultivating land and living in sophisticated societies during the 2nd millennium BC.

An ancient glacial lake that formed in the Great Lakes region of North America, Lake Agassiz, is named after him, as are Mount Agassiz in California's Palisades, Mount Agassiz, in the Uinta Mountains, Agassiz Peak in Arizona and in his native Switzerland, the Agassizhorn in the Bernese Alps.

Agassiz believed that the writers of the bible only knew of local events, for example Noah's flood was a local event only known to the regions that were populated by ancient Hebrews, Agassiz claimed the writers of the bible did not know about any events other than what was going on in their own region and their intermediate neighbors.

Today " Levant " is typically used by archaeologists and historians with reference to the prehistory and the ancient and medieval history of the region, as when discussing the Crusades.

* Thrintun: An ancient species that ruled a large empire, including the region of Known Space, through telepathic mind control about 1. 5 billion years ago.

Many of these writers used Pausanias as their guide to the geography and sights of the region, but were also concerned to correlate modern Greek place-names with ancient evidence.

Early modern scholars derived the name from Lucis, an ancient people mentioned in Avienus ' Ora Maritima and Tan, from Celtic Tan ( Stan ), or Tain, meaning a region or implying a country of waters, a root word that formerly meant a prince or sovereign governor of a region.

Italian nationalists rejected the idea of giving up Istria, since Istria had been an ancient Italian region together with the Venetian region ( Venetia et Histria ).

* the ancient Greek city of Histria ( ancient city ), located on the shore of the Sinoe Lake

The region was then called together with the Venetian part the X. Roman Region of " Venetia et Histria ", the ancient definition of the northeastern border of Italy.

The original thoroughfare, flanked by rows of columns and shops, was about 73 feet ( 22 meters ) wide ( roughly the equivalent of a present-day six lane motorway ), but buildings have extended onto the streets over the centuries, and the modern lanes replacing the ancient grid are now quite narrow.

It served as an extended defense for the studies of ancient literature and thought.

According to Herodotus, Libya began where ancient Egypt ended, and extended to Cape Spartel, south of Tangier on the Atlantic coast.

: One of the most ancient and most established instruments of power was the court of Star Chamber, which possessed an unlimited discretionary authority of fining, imprisoning, and inflicting corporal punishment, and whose jurisdiction extended to all sorts of offenses, contempts, and disorders, that lay not within reach of the common law.

( This ancient, second, canal may have followed a course along the shoreline of the Red Sea when it once extended north to Lake Timsah.

Scupi, the ancient name for Skopje, became the capital of Dardania, which extended from Naissus to Bylazora in the second century BC.

The same was true in ancient Israel through most of the monarchy – for example, the story of Achan in Joshua 8 suggests an extended family as the major social unit.

The eastern Armorican people of Redones founded Condate — an ancient Celtic word meaning confluent — at the confluence of the Ille and Vilaine rivers and made it the capital of a territory that extended to the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel.

This kingdom originally extended east into areas now in England, and its ancient capital, Pengwern, has been variously identified as modern Shrewsbury or a site north of Baschurch.

This also extended to children who had reached the " age of discretion ", though he did not permit the ancient Eastern practice of infant communion.

Today, with the extended excavation of surrounding site, it is believed to be an ancient city of the Shu Kingdom, where excavations have yielded invaluable archaeological information.

The ancient Greek concept of hubris extended to what would today be termed assault and battery.

They colonized Crete and extended their rule over Epirus, Thessaly and by implication over wherever else the ancient authors said they were, beginning with Homer.

Brunelleschi's interests extended to mathematics and engineering and the study of ancient monuments.

# The Lemba bury their dead in an extended rather than a crouched position – i. e., in the same style as in certain Zimbabwean graves, where gold jewellery confirmed their association with the ancient civilization ;

" The Aryans used mleccha much like the ancient Greeks used barbaros, " originally to indicate the uncouth and incomprehensible speech of foreigners and then extended to their unfamiliar behavior.

Augustine spoke passionately of God's " beauty so ancient and so new ",< ref > Augustine of Hippo ,< cite > Confessions 10, 27 </ cite ></ ref > and his fascination with beauty extended to music.

The Canon also adopted the ancient theory of Four Temperaments and extended it to encompass " emotional aspects, mental capacity, moral attitudes, self-awareness, movements and dreams.

John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood made two extended visits to Uxmal in the early 1840s, with architect / draftsman Catherwood reportedly making so many plans and drawings that they could be used to construct a duplicate of the ancient city ( unfortunately most of the drawings are lost ).

Finally, extended fasting has been recommended as therapy for various conditions by health professionals of most cultures, throughout history, from ancient to modern.

Master's degrees conferred after an extended programs are not to be conflated with the degree of Master of Arts conferred at Oxbridge and Dublin, which is not a substantive qualification, but reflects the ancient practice of those three universities of promoting Bachelors of Arts to Masters of Arts ( and thus full membership of the University ) six or seven years after matriculation.

In theory at least, he held powers of life and death over every member of his extended familia through ancient right but in practice, the extreme form of this right was seldom exercised.

There was a canal from the Nile delta to the Gulf of Suez in ancient times, when the gulf extended further north than it does today.

In ancient times Nubians were depicted by Egyptians as having very dark skin, often shown with hooped earrings and with braided or extended hair.