INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ionia n, any member of an important eastern division of the ancient Greek people, who gave their name to a district on the western coast of Anatolia (now Turkey). The Ionian dialect of Greek was closely related to Attic and was spoken in Ionia and on many of the Aegean islands.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ionia was a region of ancient Greece located on the shores of Asia Minor, or modern-day Turkey. The Ionian people were originally from mainland Greece, but sailed across the Aegean Sea and began to colonize Asia Minor in roughly 1000 BCE.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most modern Middle Eastern languages use the terms “Ionia” and “Ionian” to refer to Greece and Greeks.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Greeks (Greek: ) have been identified by many ethnonyms. The most common native ethnonym is Hellen (Ancient Greek: ), pl. Hellenes (); the name Greeks (Latin: Graeci) was used by the ancient Romans and gradually entered the European languages through its use in Latin.

Detailed explanation-5: -noun. Io·ni·an ī-ˈō-nē-ən. : a member of any of the Greek peoples who settled on the islands of the Aegean Sea and the western shore of Asia Minor toward the end of the second millennium b.c. : a native or inhabitant of Ionia.