Eurasia Asia 950 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D001208 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Asia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48 Asia and Oceania Asian The largest of the continents. It was known to the Romans more specifically as what we know today as Asia Minor. The name comes from at least two possible sources: from the Assyrian asu (to rise) or from the Sanskrit usa (dawn), both with reference to its being the land of the rising sun, i.e., eastern as opposed to Europe, to the west. The world's largest continent; it occupies the eastern part of the Eurasian landmass and its adjacent islands and is separated from Europe by the Ural Mountains. Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements