Near East

English

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

Proper noun

Near East

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

Usage notes

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.

Related terms

• Middle East
• Western Asia

Translations

region in Asia

• Afrikaans: Nabye Ooste
• Arabic: شَرْق أَدْنَى m (šarq ʔadnā)
• Armenian: Մերձավոր Արեւելք (Merjavor Arewelkʻ)
• Belarusian: Блі́зкі Усхо́д m (Blízki Usxód)
• Bulgarian: Бли́зък Изто́к m (Blízǎk Iztók)
• Catalan: Pròxim Orient m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 近東／近东 (zh) (Jìndōng), 近东 (zh) (Jìndōng)

• Czech: Blízký východ (cs) m
• Danish: Nærorienten
• Dutch: Nabije Oosten n
• Esperanto: Proksimoriento, Proksima Oriento
• Finnish: Lähi-itä (fi)
• French: Proche-Orient (fr) m
• German: Naher Osten (de) m
• Greek: Εγγύς Ανατολή (el) f (Engýs Anatolí)
• Hungarian: Közel-Kelet (hu)
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• Japanese: 近東 (きんとう, Kintō)
• Khmer: ដើមបូព៌ា (daeumboព៌ា)
• Korean: 근동 (Geundong)
• Macedonian: Близок Исток m (Blizok Istok)
• Malay: Timur Dekat
• Polish: Bliski Wschód (pl)
• Portuguese: Oriente Próximo m, Próximo Oriente m
• Russian: Бли́жний Восто́к (ru) m (Blížnij Vostók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Блиски исток m

  Roman: Bliski istok (sh) m

• Spanish: Oriente Próximo (es) m, Próximo Oriente m, Cercano Oriente m
• Tagalog: Malapit na Silangan
• Turkish: Yakın Doğu (tr)
• Ukrainian: Близьки́й Схід m (Blyzʹkýj Sxid)
• Vietnamese: Cận Đông

Anagrams

• arsenate, arsetane, asterane, serenata