Near East

English

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

Proper noun

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

Related terms

Middle East

Translations

region in Asia

Arabic: شَرْق أَدْنَى‎ m (šarq ʾadnā)
Armenian: Մերձավոր Արեւելք (Merjavor Arewelkʿ)
Belarusian: Блі́зкі Усхо́д m (Blízki Usxód)
Bulgarian: Бли́зък Изто́к m (Blízǎk Iztók)
Catalan: Pròxim Orient m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 近東 (zh), 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)

Japanese: 近東 (きんとう, Kintō)
Khmer: ដើមបូព៌ា
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

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