The Aegean coast of Anatolia had been …
Years: 909BCE - 766BCE
The Aegean coast of Anatolia had been an integral part of a Minoan-Mycenean civilization (circa 2600-1200 BCE) that had drawn its cultural impulses from Crete.
Ionian Greek refugees during the Aegean region's so-called Dark Age (ca. 1050-800 BCE) flee across the sea to western Anatolia, at this time under Lydian rule, to escape the onslaught of the Dorians.
Groups
- Carians
- Greeks, Proto-
- Ionians
- Dorians
- Aeolians
- Lydia, Kingdom of
- Rhodes, City-States of
- Greece, classical
- Knidos, City-State of
- Halicarnassus, Greek City-State of
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Greek Dark Ages
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Greek colonization, First
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
