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Lesser Asia
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English
Etymology
Calque of en la Asia Minor.
Proper noun
Lesser Asia
en archaic en Asia Minor.
1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 192:
CHIO, Chios, Xio, or Scio, an Aſiatic iſland, lying near the coaſt of Ionia, in Natolia or Leſſer Aſia, about one hundred miles weſt of Smyrna. It is called by the Turks Sakiſaduci, and is about one hundred miles in circumference; being chiefly inhabited by Chriſtians of the Greek church, who are ſaid to have three hundred churches in the iſland...
en terms calqued from Latin