The Roman world
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Asia Minor
Asia Minor is the big peninsula we now call Turkey. Rome had rich provinces here.
More to know
Greek cities dotted the coast. Doctors, builders, and empresses came from these towns. Galen was from Pergamon. Julia Domna’s family was from Syria, farther south, but this whole east mattered.
What happened here
133 BC
A kingdom is willed to Rome
The last king of Pergamon left his kingdom to Rome. That is how a province called Asia began.
People tied to this place
- SullaHe marched an army into Rome and ruled by force.
- PompeyHe was a great general who later lost to Caesar.
- Faustina the YoungerShe was empress and traveled with the army.
- GalenHe was a famous doctor whose books taught Europe for ages.
- DiocletianHe split the hard job of ruling a huge empire.
- JulianHe was an emperor who tried to restore the old gods.