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The large and varied territory known as Asia Minor is the land where the continent of Asia nearly joins hands with the soil of Europe. For- it 1s a great peninsula where the coast of Asia almost touches the shore line of Greece. They are separated by the island dotted Aegean Sea. Asia Minor is the land which is the gateway to and from the four quarters of the earth. It is the land where the Orient and the Occident meet and mingle. This point live must not forget” for the history of the city of Ephesus is the story of the mixing of the culture of’ the Orient and the culture of the Greeks and the Romans. Asia Minor was the land where the great trade routes converged from Asia going to Europe, and where the trade routes from Europe joined those of Asia going East. Ephesus was not only the capital city of the great province or Asia in the heart of Asia rUnor” but it was one or the three great cities of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its reputation in size, wealth, beauty, culture, and power, was shared in the first Christian century with Alexandria, Egypt, and Antioch, Syria.