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Definition of ıyonyalı in Turkish English dictionary
- Ionian
- A member of the Ionians, one of the races of Ancient Greece
- Ionic, of Ionia, the ancient (ca 1100 BC) region including western Asia Minor and the adjacent Aegean Islands occupied by the Ionian people
- Relating to the Hellenic people of that name
- Relating to Io, one of the moons of the planet Jupiter
- Any ancient Greek inhabitant of Ionia, from the time of the collapse of Mycenae. Ionian cities colonized southern Italy and opened up the Black Sea from 700 BC. Their contributions to Greek culture included the epics of Homer and the earliest elegiac and iambic poetry. They began the study of geography, philosophy, and historiography in the 6th century. After Alexander the Great their literary language was the basis of Koine, or "common speech," the language of practically all Greek writing to the present day. Ionian Islands Ionian revolt Ionian school Ionian Sea