Caption: "Greek Colonization of western Anatolia (AKA Asia Minor, modern Turkey) (i.e., First Greek colonisation) during the Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100--c. 800 BCE)." (Somewhat edited.)

The green region is Ionia.

Miletus (abbreviated Milet on map) was the intellectual capital of the world in the 6th century BCE with the Milesian school of Presocratic philosophers: Thales (c. 624--c. 546 BCE) (the first philosopher), Anaximander (c. 610--c. 546 BCE), and Anaximenes (c. 585--c. 528 BCE). There was a moment when there was only Miletus.

Other Ionian Presocratics include Pythagoras (c. 570--c. 495 BCE) (from Samos), Heraclitus (c. 535--c. 475 BCE) (from Ephesus), and Anaxagoras (c. 510--c. 428 BCE) (from Klazomenai).

About the same time as the Thales (c. 624--c. 546 BCE) flourished Sappho (c.630--c.570 BCE), who is NOT a Presocratic, but is a Greek lyric poet and a citizen of Lesbos,

Features on the map (not exhaustive):

1. bodies of water: Aegean Sea, Dardanelles (AKA Hellespont) (the strait at the north of the Anatolia coast), Meander River (modern name Buyuk Menderes River)), Propontis (modern name Sea of Marmara).
2. cities: Colophon, Ephesus, Halicarnassus, Klazomenai, Lindos, Magnesia ad Sipylum, Miletus, Mytilene, Priene, Smyrna, Troy (not labeled).
3. countries: Aeolis (red), Anatolia, Caria, Dodecanese plus adjacent mainland (blue), Ionia ((green), Lydia, Mysia, Troad.
4. islands: Amorgos, Chios, Icaria, Imbros, Kos, Lesbos, Naxos, Patmos (not labeled, the hook shaped island southwest of Samos), Psara (not labeled, east of Chios), Rhodes, Samos, Santorini (Thera) (not labeled, south of Naxos), Tendos.

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