> To Asians, the Greeks were all called Ionian Not picking nits, just an interesting fact. At that time, Asia was the name of the province on the eastern shor

> To Asians, the Greeks were all called Ionian Not picking nits, just an interesting fact. At that time, Asia was the name of the province on the eastern shore of the Aegean, where the Ionian Greeks were also located, so in a sense the sentence is absolutely true. However the name "Ionian" still survives to this day throughout (modern-day) Asia: from the old Greek "Mikra Asia" in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) all the way to India, Greeks are "Ionians": "Yunani". Ah, and I just remembered another curious little thing: The western island complex of Greece (you know, Corfu-Zante-woohoo! etc., plus Odysseus' Ithaca, whichever among the candidates it may be) are also called "Ionian", but traditionally were inhabited by Doric, rather than Ionian, Greeks.