about 7 days in a favorable wind, since the ship would sail at 4-6 knots
Yes. The Asian part of what is nowadays Turkey, was called Asia minor, when it was part of Greece and later of the Roman empire. Asia minor is also called Anatolia
The Roman empire.
The Asia Minor today is called Turkey
anatola
The leading city of Asia Minor was Ephesus.
No, they are Greeks of Minor Asia, native to the northern part of Minor Asia long before the Turks arrived in Minor Asia.
Asia Minor was the name the Romans gave to western Turkey. It had been the Greek kingdom of Pergamon which became an ally of Rome. The last king of Pergamon, Attalus III, bequeathed the lands of the kingdom to Rome in 133 BC. The consul Manius Aquillius created the Roman province of Asia Minor after suppressing a rebellion by Attalus' son Eumenes II, who proclaimed himself king, in 129 BC.
Asia Minor is also referred to as Anatolia.
Persian Empire
Asia Minor is now known as Turkey
Because that part of Asia was considered the smaller, or minor, part of the continent.
. . . Yes