Asia Minor

[RoyParmenter]

What was the acient region on the coast of SW Asia Minor.

[mikewith]

Many names at many times, the most familiar to us today being Troy. If that isn't the answer you're looking for it might be worth looking at sites like http://www.asia-minor.org/History.htm or http://www.geocities.com/resats/rulers.html which both list many civilisations and rulers.

[Quizmonster]

Asia is that part of modern Turkey to the south and east of a line drawn through the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara and the Bosporus...ie most of the country. The small area of Turkey to the north and west of the above dividing-line is part of Europe.

If you click on http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/MapGreece.html a link will take you to a map of the west of Turkey and neighbouring Greece. Scroll down and to the right on the map-page and you will see the key names of the regions: Caria, Ionia, Lydia and Maeonia. All of these are on/near the coast of south-west Asia Minor.

A general name for the whole area of Asiatic Turkey is/was Anatolia.

[Quizmonster]

I meant, of course, to say: "Asia Minor is that part..." in my earlier answer and not just: "Asia is..." Lydia is, indeed, one of the regions I suggested, so I'd go with Norman's answer, Roy.

[RoyParmenter]

The ancient region on the coast was LYCIA, I eventually fount this on the internet.