Ionia
a Magypsy in the video game "Mother 3"
Capricorn Ionia
character in the anime "Saint Seiya Omega"
Ionian Sea
an arm of the Mediterranean
Ionian School
first group of philosophers that we know of; can also refer to the art movement
The Turkish name for Greece
Yunanistan, literally means "Land of the Ionians." Ionia also yielded the name for the country in Arabic and Hindi (Yunan). The place name (which Herodotus credits to an ancestral Ion, son of Apollo and Creusa) is probably pre,Greek, perhaps related to Sa
"The Ionians delighted in wanton dances and songs more than the rest of the Greeks ... and wanton gestures were proverbially termed Ionic motions." [Thomas Robinson
"Archaeologica Graeca," 1807]
"Ionian mode" is musical terminology meaning "in a major key"
