Near East

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 Near East on Wikipedia
Green: The modern archaeological and historical Near East
Lime: The wider Near East

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Near East

  1. The region located south of Eastern Europe, comprising Anatolia, Transcaucasia, the Levant, and Mesopotamia.

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Definitions vary between different academic areas, the term originally being applied to the maximum extent of the Ottoman Empire. Outside of historical studies, the term is generally deprecated in favour of Middle East. However, the term Near East is still commonly preferred when discussing the region in ancient times.

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