Asia Minor
- Ancient name
- Asia
- Modern name
- Anatolia, Turkey
- Modern country
- Turkey
- Coordinates
- 39.64, 31.03
- World Historical Gazetteer
- https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364234
Asia Minor (also known as Anatolia) is a peninsula between the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea that roughly corresponds to the modern country of Turkey. It is distinguished in ancient sources from Asia Major, the Caucasus region. Because it was occupied in Dati's day by the Seljuk Turks and later the Ottomans, it was already in the 15th century known alternatively as Turchia (Turkey). Many Sfera maps acknowledge this toponymic shift by labeling the region with both terms, for example asia minore la qual e Turchia ("Asia Minor, which is Turkey").
The toponym Asia Minor appears in La Sfera in the following places:
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Map of the location P016
Variant spellings of Asia Minor in Sfera manuscripts
| Variant | Manuscripts |
|---|---|
| aria minore | Ricc11 |
| ASIA [...] LA QUAL [... E TURCHIA] | Fn8 |
| ASIA MINO[R] | Borg |
| asia minor | Pal8, Spe |
| ASIA MINOR | BL02, Barb3, Chig1, Con1, Con4, Cs1, Fn9, He2, Laur3, Par3, Ricc12, Ricc8, Urb1 |
| ASIA Minor | New |
| ASIA MInOR | Ricc9 |
| Asia minor | Clas2, Cors2, Magl2, Morg, Parm2 |
| ASIA MINOR LA QUAL[E] E TURCHIA | Ricc6 |
| Asia minore | Ashb6, Bos, Cap1, Laur5, MB, ME2, Marc2, NYPL1, Pad1, To2, Vat2 |
| asia minore | Bal, Chig2, Fo, He3, Marc1, Med2, NYPL3, Pal6, Ricc11, Ricc13, Ricc15, Ro2 |
| ASIA MINORE | Ashb3, BL01, Med3, NYPL2, Pnc4, Ricc14, Ricc17, Vat3, Wie1 |
| Asia Minore | Yale4 |
| Asia minore cioe turchia | Con3 |
| ASia minore id est Turchia | Fn6 |
| ASIA minore idest turchia | Pal5 |
| ASIA MINORE LA QUAL E TURCHIA | Par1 |
| Neptollia | Ashb7 |
| Nepttollia | Ashb7 |
| Turchia | Bos, Con3, Fn6, Luc2, Med1, NYPL3, Ricc6 |
| TURCHIA | Fn8, Pnc5 |
| turchia | Con3, Fn3, Med2, Pal5, Par1, Ricc13, Ro2 |
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Asia Minor.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/asia-minor/.