Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Asia” in book 1, chapter 6, section 2 of Herodotus, The Histories:
...is Croesus was the first foreigner whom we know who subjugated some Greeks and took tribute from them, and won the friendship of others: the former being the Ionians, the Aeolians, and the Dorians of Asia , and the latter the Lacedaemonians.
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