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

The name Austro-Asiatic comes from the Latin words for " south " and " Asia ", hence " South Asia ".

The region became a province of the Roman Empire, with the same name Asia.

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

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Later, the Anatolian peninsula was given the name Asia ( Ἀσία ), presumably after the name of the Assuwa confederation in western Anatolia.

As the name Asia came to be extended to other areas east of the Mediterranean, the name for Anatolian became specified as Asia Minor (" Lesser Asia ", Μικρὰ Ἀσία ) in Late Antiquity.

* 泡沫紅茶 (): " foam red tea ", by direct translation, is the drink that is more appropriate for the more literal name of " bubble tea "; however, the English name, foam tea, is not used much throughout Asia.

According to Stephen Frederic Dale, the name Babur is derived from the Persian word babr, meaning " tiger ", a word that repeatedly appears in Firdawsī's Shāhnāma and had also been borrowed by the Turkic languages of Central Asia.

The name is still preserved in Central Asia with the Balkan Mountains

Despite the name " Chinese checkers ", the game is not a variation of checkers, nor did it originate in China or any part of Asia.

Another theory is that the name was borrowed from a cult of devotees to Artemis in Asia Minor, whose demeanor and dress somewhat resembled those of the group in Judaea.

The Avesta is believed to have been composed possibly as early as 1800 BC and written in ancient Ariana ( Aryana ), the earliest name of Afghanistan which indicates an early link with today's Iranian tribes to the west, or adjacent regions in Central Asia or northeastern Iran in the 6th century BC .< ref >

In many cultures ( particularly in European and European influenced cultures in the Americas, Oceania, etc., as well as the Middle East, South Asia, and most African cultures ), the family name is normally the last part of a person's name.

Since family names are normally written last in European societies ( except in Hungary ), the term last name is commonly used for family name, while in East Asia ( with vertical writing ) the family name may be referred to as upper name ( as in Japanese ).

The name can be construed as referring to old Poland, as opposed to Lesser ( or Little ) Poland ( Polish Małopolska, Latin Polonia Minor ), a region in southern Poland with its capital at Kraków.

Jonah is the only one of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible to be mentioned by name in the Qur ' an.

: The Sciri, moreover, and the Sadagarii and certain of the Alani with their leader, Candac by name, received Scythia Minor and Lower Moesia.

Herodotus mentions writing on skins as common in his time, the 5th century BCE ; and in his Histories ( v. 58 ) he states that the Ionians of Asia Minor had been accustomed to give the name of skins ( diphtherai ) to books ; this word was adapted by Hellenized Jews to describe scrolls.

He received his education from the Jesuits at Rimini and the Piarists of Urbino, and in 1724, at the age of nineteen, entered the Order of Friars Minor Conventual with the name of Lorenzo Francesco.

The latest update took place for the 2006 season The logo and name continues to be among the most popular and best selling in Minor League Baseball history.

The name refers either to the constellation Ursa Major, the " Great Bear ", which is prominent in the northern portion of the celestial sphere, or to the constellation Ursa Minor, the " Little Bear ", which contains Polaris, the Pole Star, also known as the North Star .< ref >

The name Almandine is a corruption of Alabanda, a region in Asia Minor where these stones were cut in ancient times.

* St. Volodimir of Rus founds ( or, according to some documents, gives his name to ) the city of Volodimir of Wolyn, future capital of the kingdom of Ruthenia Minor ( Halych-Wolyn Rus )

The name " chalcedony " comes from the Latin calcedonius, the word used to translate the Greek word khalkedon, found only once, in the Book of Revelation ; according to the OED a connection with the town of Chalcedon in Asia Minor is " very doubtful ".

The term chalcedony is derived from the name of the ancient Greek town Chalkedon in Asia Minor, in modern English usually spelled Chalcedon, today the Kadıköy district of Istanbul.

The district comprised three extremely fertile valleys formed by the outflow of three rivers, among the most considerable in Asia Minor: the Hermus in the north, flowing into the Gulf of Smyrna, though at some distance from the city of that name ; the Caster, which flowed under the walls of Ephesus ; and the Maeander, which in ancient times discharged its waters into the deep gulf that once bathed the walls of Miletus, but which has been gradually filled up by this river's deposits.

* Emperor Constantine the Great gives the ancient Roman town Drepana ( Asia Minor ) the name Helenopolis, after his mother Helena, and builds a church in honour of the martyr St. Lucian.

Still others take the name as coming from the Greek name of Sardis glans ( Sardis acorn ) – Sardis being the capital of Lydia, Asia Minor, wherefrom the fruit had spread.

The Greek name for Edremit is Adramyttion () and the Latin name is Adramyttium, mentioned in the New Testament ( Acts 27: 2 ), as a city of Asia Minor on the coast of Mysia, which was called Aeolis in classical antiquity.

The Phoenician name of the people recalls one of the Homeric names of the Greeks, Danaoi with the-m plural, whereas the Luwian name Hiyawa probably goes back to Hittite Ahhiyā ( wa ), which is, according to most interpretations, the " Achaean ", or Mycenaean Greek, settlement in Asia Minor.

That girl last night, what was her name??

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.

Her name was Esther Peter.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.