HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Arabian Peninsula
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Persia
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Asia Minor
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Spain
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Detailed explanation-1: -Anatolia, also called Asia Minor, is the peninsula of land that today constitutes the Asian portion of Turkey.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Ottoman Turks (Turkish: Osmanlı Türkleri), were a Turkic ethnic group. They founded the Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Era and remained sociopolitically the most dominant group in the Empire for the duration ( c. 1299/1302–1922).
Detailed explanation-3: -In the 1400s Turks conquered the peninsula and added it to the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire lasted until 1922. In 1923 Asia Minor became the Asian part of the Republic of Turkey.
Detailed explanation-4: -This dichotomy was officially ended in 1920–1923, when the newly established Ankara-based Turkish government chose Turkey as the sole official name.