History
From the 18th century BC the region was a part of the Hittite Empire with possible name Arzawa,which was destroyed by invaders during the 12th century BC together with the collapse of the Empire. Ionia was settled by the Greeks probably during the 11th century BC.The most important city was Miletus (the Milawanta of Hittites). Several centuries later Ionia was the place where western philosophy began and was the homeland of Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes.They were natural-philosophers of the Ionian school of philosophy and tried to explain the phenomena according to no-supernatural laws.They also searched a simple material-form behind the appearances of things (origin) and this conception had a great influence on the early archaic art in Greece.
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