Anatolia

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Ancient Anatolia
- Prehistoric cultures of Anatolia
  - The Neolithic Period
  - The Chalcolithic Period
  - Early Bronze Age
  - Middle Bronze Age
- The rise and fall of the Hittites
  - The Hittite occupation of Anatolia
  - The Old Hittite Kingdom
  - The Middle Kingdom
  - The Hittite empire to c. 1180 bce
- Anatolia from the end of the Hittite Empire to the Achaemenian Period
  - Phrygia from c. 1180 to 700 bce
  - The neo-Hittite states from c. 1180 to 700 bce
  - The Cimmerians, Lydia, and Cilicia, c. 700–547 bce
  - Greek colonies on the Anatolian coasts, c. 1180–547 bce
- Anatolia in the Achaemenian and Hellenistic periods
  - Diversity of cultural influences
  - The Anatolian Greeks in the Achaemenian period
  - Caria, Lycia, and Cilicia in the Achaemenian period
  - Anatolia in the Hellenistic Age (334–c. 30 bce)
Roman, Byzantine, and Seljuq rule
- Anatolia in the later Roman and Byzantine periods
  - Administration and settlement patterns
  - War and social dislocation
  - Late Byzantine rule
- The Seljuqs of Anatolia
  - Origins and ascendancy
  - Seljuq expansion
  - Division and decline

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Galen of Pergamum

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St. Irenaeus

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Greek mathematician

Ramon Llull.

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Catalan mystic

Anaxagoras

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Greek philosopher

Justinian II

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Meïr

Jewish rabbi and scholar

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Turkish author

Aydın Dynasty

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Gnostic philosopher

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Eretna dynasty

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Turkmen dynasty

Ramazan Dynasty

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