chapter 20, section 1.

ASIA: Central. Mongol Conquest.

See MONGOLS.

ASIA: Turkish Conquest.

See TURKS.

ASIA: Russian Conquests.

See RUSSIA: A. D. 1859-1876, and 1869-1881.

ASIA MINOR:

"The name of Asia Minor, so familiar to the student of ancient geography, was not in use either among Greek or Roman writers until a very late period. Orosius, who wrote in the fifth century after the Christian era, is the first extant writer who employs the term in its modern sense."

_E. H. Bunbury, History of Ancient Geography.,