Noting the irony that Ankara is right smack in the middle of the territory that the word "Asia" was originally invented to describe.
Similarly, I sense that "Africa" (originally coined for what is approximately modern Tunisia) now seems to be applied more wholeheartedly to sub-Saharan Africa than to the Mediterranean coastal countries.
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Date: 2013-12-23 08:43 pm (UTC)Similarly, I sense that "Africa" (originally coined for what is approximately modern Tunisia) now seems to be applied more wholeheartedly to sub-Saharan Africa than to the Mediterranean coastal countries.