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	Asia and Oceania
		The Republic of India, Asia's second-largest country after China, fills the major part of the South Asian subcontinent (which it shares with Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh) and includes the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal and Lakshadweep (formerly the Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands) in the Arabian Sea.
		The smallest country in Asia, the Republic of Maldives consists of an archipelago of nearly 1,200 coral islands and sand banks in the Indian Ocean, some 200 of which are inhabited.
		The Republic of the Philippines consists of an archipelago of 7,107 islands situated SE of mainland Asia and separated from it by the South China Sea.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Asia-and-Oceania (0 words)

	Province of Asia Minor
		The ruins of the cities of the Roman province of Asia Minor from the same period are stunning in contrast.
		Asia Minor (also known as Anatolia) is a peninsula which extends from the continent of Asia west toward Europe.
		Asia Minor as the crossroads of the Roman world became the fertile soil in which the Church prospered in spite of the dangers.
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	Travel Guide To Turkey, Guide de la Turquie, GUIDE MARTINE, Guide to Turkey, Guide de Turquie, Travel, Turkey, Voyage, ...
		Asia Minor was divided in provinces: Cilicia was incorporated to the Roman Province of Asia (western and south-western part of Asia Minor), Bithynia and Pontus were united in one province just like Galatia and Cappadocia.
		The new Roman provinces of Asia Minor appeared like a land of prosperity, of gentle way of life with the birth of a new bourgeoisie and the blossoming of a culture, fastuous synthesis of Greek, Roman and Persian arts.
		However Christian faith was an essential fact in the oriental Roman provinces, and from 324, emperor Constantine the Great openly embraced Christianity which became state religion, and Byzantium was chosen as second capital of the Roman Empire under the name of Constantinople en 330.
	www.guide-martine.com /history6.asp (2433 words)

	Asia Province Information
		The Roman province of Asia was an administrative unit added to the late Republic.
		Asia's great cities, like Ephesus and Pergamum, were among the greatest metropolis of the Empire.
		After 326, when the Emperor Constantine I moved the capital to Byzantium, which he refounded, the province of Asia was more centrally situated than ever, and remained a center of Roman and Hellenistic culture in the east for centuries.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Asia_Province (216 words)

	Philologos \| The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia \| Chapter 10
		Asia was divided into districts, apparently, and a certain number of cities had the title of metropolis; but the details regarding the representation of the districts or the metropoles in the Commune are unknown.
		He speaks of the Province as "the nation of Asia": i.e., the Roman Province took the place of any national divisions: loyalty considered that there was only one nation in Asia, that the Province was the nation.
		Many cities of Asia made agreements with each other for mutual recognition of their cults and festivals and common rights of all citizens of both cities at the festivals; and such agreements were usually commemorated by striking what are called "alliance-coins," on which the patron deities of the two cities are represented side by side.
	philologos.org /__eb-lttsc/chap10.htm (3362 words)

	asia map and map of asia countries landforms rivers and information pages
		Asia has three important recognized political divisions: The Middle East, (or West Asia) countries are colored a lighter shade of gray; Southeast Asia (or South Asia) countries are colored a medium shade of gray, and North Asia countries are colored a darker shade of gray.
		Significant features of the continent of Asia include the world's tallest mountain, Mt Everest in Nepal (and China), rising to 29,035 ft (8,850m).
		Middle East: Countries considered part of the Middle East (or West Asia) are shown in a lighter shade of green, and their names are indicated in red.
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	Asia Minor
		Asia Minor was now a permanent province of Rome and would remain so long after the fall of the west.
		The new Roman province of Asia Minor was a land of prosperity and highly defined culture.
		The province was the center of Roman and Hellenized culture in the east for centuries, and the territory remained part of the Byzantine Empire until the 15th century AD.
	www.unrv.com /provinces/asia-minor.php (1102 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Asia Minor
		Asia Minor, in which both the senate and the emperor exercised, in theory at least, a co-ordinate jurisdiction until the end of the third century, was too contented and loyal to call for other troops than were necessary for protection from the foreign enemy, or to repress brigandage.
		Internal reform of the Christian Church was first undertaken from Asia Minor, where Montanus, a native of Phrygia, began the rigorist movement known as Montanism, and denounced the growing laxity of Christian life and the moral apathy of the religious chiefs of the society.
		On the Persian frontier of Asia Minor, in some secluded valleys, are found yet a few Nestorians, descendants of those Syrian Christians who fled in remote times to these fastnesses either to avoid the oppression of their Moslem masters in Mesopotamia or before the encroachments of nomad tribes.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01782a.htm (10330 words)

	Asia
		It is exceedingly difficult to determine the exact boundaries of the several countries which later constituted the Roman province, for they seem to have been somewhat vague to the ancients themselves, and were constantly shifting; it is therefore impossible to trace the exact borders of the province of Asia.
		The governor of Asia was a pro-consul, chosen by lot by the Roman senate from among the former consuls who had been out of office for at least five years, and he seldom continued in office for more than a single year.
		In 285 ad the province was reduced in size, as Caria, Lydia, Mysia and Phrygia were separated from it, and apart from the cities of the coast little remained.
	holycall.com /biblemaps/asia.htm (499 words)

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		Thailand is divided into 76 provinces (changwat), which are grouped into 5 groups of provinces by location.
		Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore Malay: Republik Singapura; Chinese:, Pinyin: is an island city-state and the smallest country in South-East Asia.
		Hong Kong is on the eastern side of the Pearl River Delta on the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China, facing the South China Sea in the south, and bordering Guangdong Province in the north.
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	Third Archbishop of Anglican Southeast Asia Province Installed
		Confidence for the Challenges Ahead - The Province of Southeast Asia celebrates the Installation of her Third Archbishop on 5th February 2006.
		Dr John Chew has been installed as the Third Archbishop of the Province of the Anglican Church in Southeast Asia.
		The service, taking place in the heart of Singapore was considered a celebration of the work of God in the relatively new Anglican Province (it’s currently in its tenth year).
	www.christiantoday.com /article/third.archbishop.of.anglican.southeast.asia.province.installed/5239.htm (0 words)

	Awesome Asia: Awesome Asia
		At 1.16 meters in diameter and 2.8 meters in length, the pipe is reported to be largest in China and weighs 116 kilogram.
		The ancient Khmer capital of Koh Ker, in rural Preah Vihear province, is poised to become a major temple attraction for visitors to Cambodia.
		Currently on display in Wedding Cosmetic Museum in She County of Anhui Province, it’s a chair that weighs 1 ton and is the world’s biggest sedan chair.
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	Accomodation, Accomodations & Motels in asia, Budget Accomodations and Cheap Motels in asia
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		The Venetian is a luxury hotel located at the center of the Las Vegas Strip on the former site of the legendary Sands Hotel.
		Search for hotels by city, state, province, or country.
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	ITOCHU Corporation : Business > Asia > Shandong Province (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Contact image sensors, on the other hand, are expected to enjoy robust growth in demand together with the diversification and specialization of document scanners.
		ITOCHU established its second factory, called YITIAN JUICE (SHAANXI) CO., LTD., in the city of Luochuan in Shaanxi Province at the end of 2002.
		The factory is equipped with a system that can respond to the diverse needs required by customers in Japan and around the world.
	www.itochu.co.jp /main/business/asia/ch_shandong_e.html (930 words)

	Ancient Districts of Anatolia and Asia Minor
		The province was later included in the Byzantine Empire until it was captured in the 8th century by Arabs.
		On his overthrow in 66 BCE by the Roman general Pompey the Great, the kingdom was divided, the western portion being joined to the province of Bithynia in a Roman province known as Pontus and Bithynia and the eastern region being assigned to native princes.
		The eastern territory was constituted a Roman province in 62 CE and at first was joined to Galatia, but in the 4th century CE, under the Roman emperor Constantine I, it became a separate province with the name Pontus Polemoniacus.
	www.ancientanatolia.com /historical/ancient_districts.htm (2731 words)

	Ancient Districts of Asia Minor and Anatolia
		On his overthrow in 66 BC by the Roman general Pompey the Great, the kingdom was divided, the western portion being joined to the province of Bithynia in a Roman province known as Pontus and Bithynia and the eastern region being assigned to native princes.
		The eastern territory was constituted a Roman province in 62 AD and at first was joined to Galatia, but in the 4th century AD, under the Roman emperor Constantine I, it became a separate province with the name Pontus Polemoniacus.
		Following the war between the Romans and Seleucid kingdom at the battle of Magnesia in 190 BC., the Romans was victorious, and presented this region to Eumenes II the king of Pergamum, who assisted the Roman army during the battle.
	www.ancientanatolia.com /sites/ancient_districts.htm (3048 words)

	Philologos \| The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia \| Chapter 14
		Not merely was it one of the greatest cities of the Province (as has been mentioned in the preceding paragraph): it also lay on one of the great routes by which Christianity spread.
		In a vigorous and rapidly growing body like the Church of the Province Asia, a fact was not likely to lie for a long time inactive, and then at last begin actively to affect the growth of the whole organism.
		Before the end of the century, the Province was divided into districts with representative cities, and Asia was advancing along a path that led to the institution of a regularly organised hierarchy with one supreme head of the Province.
	philologos.org /__eb-lttsc/chap14.htm (2527 words)

	Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		Conquered by the Romans in the war against Antiochus the Great, it was given by them to their ally Eumenes, King of Pergamum, at the peace which was concluded in 189 B.C. ; and in 133 B.C. it was bequeathed by his nephew and adopted son Attalus III to the great conquering people.
		The one reference to the Commune in the New Testament outside of the Apocalypse is in Acts 19:31, where certain members of that body, “chief officers of Asia,” are mentioned as friends of St. Paul, and took his side against the mob of worshippers of Ephesian Artemis, a typically Anatolian goddess.
		The Greek character of the entire Church in its earlier stages—for even the Church in Rome was mainly Greek in language until the middle of the second century—was chiefly determined by the character of the Province Asia.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/ramsay/letters.xii.html?scrBook=Acts&scrCh=16&scrV=6 (3209 words)

	Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia
		The Province was not a tract of land subjected to Rome: as a definite tract of the earth “Asia” originally had no existence except in the sense of the whole vast continent, which is still known under that name.
		The Province of Asia in its double aspect of civil and religious administration, the Proconsul and the Commune, is symbolised by the monster described 13:11ff.
		The existence of many such impostors in the Province Asia during the first century is attested, not merely by the passages already quoted from the Acts, but also by an incident recorded by Philostratus in the biography of Apollonius.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/ramsay/letters.xi.html?bcb=0 (4296 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ecclesiastical Province (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Antioch for Syria, Ephesus for the Province of Asia, Alexandria for Egypt, Rome for Italy), whence Christian missionaries issued to preach the Gospel, were regarded as the mother-churches of the newly-founded Christian communities.
		However, at the end of antiquity the existence of church provinces as the basis of ecclesiastical administration was fairly universal in the West.
		The delimitation of church provinces is since the Middle Ages a right reserved to the pope.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12514a.htm (577 words)

	Asia, Mysia
		In 281 B.C. when Lysimachus, who had appropriated Western Asia Minor as a successor of Alexander the Great, was defeated by Seleucus of Syria, Philataerus whom he had appointed to direct his fortress perched on the rocky terrain over the Caicus Valley seized his chance to secure the fortress for himself.
		Pergamum was granted its freedom of sorts by the governor of Asia, Publius Servilius Isauricus, who had taken steps in the senate to protect the provinces from excessive advantage by Roman capitalists.
		Pergamum passed from a kingdom to the Roman province of Mysia then to the province of Asia before it was deemed a democracy under the hegemony of the Roman Empire, but its culture never failed to thrive, surviving every upheaval.
	www.usd.edu /~clehmann/pir/asiamysi.htm (1081 words)

	South Asia Map - Open File Report 97-470C
		Each region was then further divided into geologic provinces on the basis of natural geologic entities and may include a dominant structural element or a number of contiguous elements.
		The geologic provinces are being further subdivided into petroleum systems and assessment units in order to appraise the undiscovered petroleum potential of selected provinces of the world.
		This map for South Asia was compiled and synthesized primarily from the UNESCO, 1976 and 1990, geologic maps of South and East Asia, 1:10,000,000 and 1:5,000,000 scales respectively.
	pubs.usgs.gov /of/1997/ofr-97-470/OF97-470C (947 words)

	Anglican Communion:Church of the Province of South East Asia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Anglican Church in South East Asia was originally under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Calcutta, India.
		Until the inauguration of the Church of the Province of South East Asia, the four dioceses (Kutching, Sabah, Singapore, and West Malaysia) were under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
		Although the Province exists under the restrictions of a Muslim government, the Church has experienced spiritual renewal and has sent out its own mission partners to various parts of the world.
	www.anglicancommunion.org /tour/province.cfm?ID=S2 (144 words)

	Chai Yo! Suvarnabhumi proclaimed 77th Province! - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		The cabinet yesterday approved in principle a draft bill establishing the Suvarnabhumi metropolis as the country's 77th province despite a concern by Bangkok's governor of adverse effects on the capital.
		The metropolis is to be run by a governor, appointed by a prime minister-chaired panel, in the first four to eight years.
		Government spokesman Surapong Suebwonglee said turning the new Suvarnabhumi airport into an aviation and transport centre would be difficult without a new province to oversee development, now done by small local bodies with limited budgets and personnel.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=78577 (741 words)

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