Near East Near East Anatolia ( Turkish: "Anadolu", Greek: "Aνατολή" Αnatolē or Ανατολία Anatolìa) is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey, also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor. It means "rising of the sun" or "East", is . The Turkish word Anadolu is coming from a derivation of its original Greek version. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anatolia"
Characene was a kingdom within the Parthian empire at the Persian Gulf. Its capital was Charax Spasinou. The city was an important port in the trade from Mesopotamia to India. ...more on Wikipedia about "Characene"
The Iranian plateau is major geologic formation in the Middle East and the southern Eurasian Plate. It covers much of Iran (roughly 2/3 of the country from the Zagros Mountains eastwards), Afghanistan (mainly the southern and eastern portions of the country), western Pakistan (namely Balochistan and the North West Frontier Province), and the southern portion of Turkmenistan and a small part of southern Azerbaijan. ** It stretches south of the Alborz Mountains to the coast. Its western edge is marked by the Zagros Mountains and in the east it ends with the Hindu Kush range. ...more on Wikipedia about "Iranian plateau"
Levant is an imprecise geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east. The Levant does not include the Caucasus Mountains, any part of the Arabian Peninsula proper, or Anatolia — although at times Cilicia may be included. The Sinai Peninsula may also be included, but may be excluded as a marginal area forming a land bridge between the Levant and northern Egypt. At times Levantine cultures and peoples dominated the region between the Sinai and the Nile river, but that region is usually excluded from the geographical Levant. For what the Levant has been called by natives and others over time, see Names of the Levant. ...more on Wikipedia about "Levant"
Mesopotamia ( Greek: Μεσοποταμία, translated from Old Persian Miyanrudan "between rivers"; Aramaic name being Beth-Nahrain "House of Two Rivers") is a region of Southwest Asia. Strictly speaking, it is the alluvial plain lying between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers composing parts of Iraq, Turkey and Syria. More commonly the term includes these river plains in totality as well as the surrounding lowland territories bounded by the Syrian Desert to the west, the Arabian Desert to the south, the Persian Gulf to the southeast, the Zagros Mountains to the east and the Caucasus mountains to the north. Mesopotamia is famous as the site of some of the oldest civilizations in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mesopotamia"
The Near East is a term commonly used by archaeologists and historians, less commonly by journalists and commentators, to refer to the region encompassing the Levant (modern Israel, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon), Asia Minor (modern Turkey), Mesopotamia ( Iraq and eastern Syria), and the Iranian Plateau ( Iran, Afghanistan and western Pakistan). An alternative non-Eurocentric designation in recent years has been ' Southwest Asia', although this term has yet to achieve widespread use. ...more on Wikipedia about "Near East"
The Syrian War is the name generally given to the war of 1839-40 fought in the Middle East between the Allied Powers of Great Britain, Austria, Russia and Turkey against the expansionist designs of Mehmet Ali, the Pasha of Egypt, tacitly supported by France. ...more on Wikipedia about "Syrian War"
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