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, comprised of 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. The term is generally deprecated, in favour of Middle East.

Related terms

• Middle East

Translations

Anagrams

• arsenate
• serenata