Abstract

Anatolia is always a pleasant residence to the migration movements of the Greek inhabitants, and its location formed the main corridor for transmission of ideas and peoples from Europe and the Near East. These cultural interactions may reach its climax in the transitional period between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. In the following results of the Mycenaean collapse about the 12th century B.C., the Greek craftsmen, artists, and traders left their homeland to retrieve activities through being settled in western Anatolian cities, such as Miletus, where it is found large quantity of locally-produced, non-Mycenaean imitation pottery, fortified remains, besides tomb types which assembled mixed features with Mycenaean and Hittite origins. Therefore, it can be distinguished four main areas in Anatolia, whose cultures had a profound influence on the eastern Greeks (Ozgen, 1985):

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