Anatolia Anatolia Anatolia (from Greek '; "east" or "[sun]rise"), also known as Asia Minor (Medieval and Modern Greek: ', "small Asia"; ), Asian Turkey, the Anatolian peninsula, or the Anatolian plateau, is the westernmost protrusion of Asia, which makes up the majority of modern-day Turkey. The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Armenian Highlands to the east, and the Aegean Sea to the west. The Sea of Marmara forms a connection between the Black and Aegean Seas through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits and separates Anatolia from Thrace on the
General Congregation of the Anatolian Turkish Orthodox General Congregation of the Anatolian Turkish Orthodox The General Congregation of the Anatolian Turkish Orthodox (in Turkish "Umum Anadolu Türk Ortodoksları Cemaatleri") was a pro-Turkish nationalist Orthodox Christian group set up in 1922 and mainly active in the Turkish-speaking, Orthodox Christian Karamanlides population of central Anatolia. Unlike most Greek Orthodox Christians, they identified themselves as Turkish rather than Greek and supported Kemal Ataturk. At the time, it had support from the Orthodox Bishop of Havza, as well as numerous other congregations. There were calls to establish a new Patriarchate for Turkish-speaking Christians with Turkish as the language of worship. In