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1313: 564: 1019: 458: 665: 1376:. Within the government the State Department has been most influential in promulgating the Near Eastern regional system. The countries of the former empires of the 19th century have in general abandoned the term and the subdivision in favor of Middle East, North Africa, and various forms of Asia. In many cases, such as France, no distinct regional substructures have been employed. Each country has its own French diplomatic apparatus, although regional terms, including Proche-Orient and Moyen-Orient, can be used in a descriptive sense. 1418:. It teaches courses and holds seminars and workshops for government officials and military officers who will work or are working within its region. As the name indicates, that region is a combination of State Department regions; however, NESA is careful to identify the State Department region. As its Near East is not different from the State Department's it does not appear in the table. Its name, however, is not entirely accurate. For example, its region includes Mauritania, a member of the State Department's Africa (Sub-Sahara). 48: 1245:... in India, in Central Asia, and in all the regions adjacent to the Near East, he still boldly remains a conqueror in possession of vast stretches of valuable territory; a conqueror who has no intention of lightly surrendering his conquests, and who indeed sees in every attempt to modify the old order of things a most hateful and unjustifiable revolt which must at all costs be repressed. This is so absolutely true that no candid person will be inclined to dispute it. 2386:(CIA) is divided, includes the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis (NESA). Its duties are defined as "support on Middle Eastern and North African countries, as well as on the South Asian nations of India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan." The combined range of countries is in fact the same as the State Department's Near East, but the names do not correspond. The Near East of the NESA is the same as the Middle East defined in the CIA-published on-line resource, 5553: 812:. His map delineates the Nearer East with regular lines as though surveyed. They include Iran, the Balkans, but not the Danube lands, Egypt, but not the rest of North Africa. Except for the Balkans, the region matches the later Middle East. It differs from the Ottoman Empire of the times in including Greece and Iran. Hogarth gives no evidence of being familiar with the contemporaneous initial concept of the Middle East. 1447: 242: 1049:

frontiers of the Arabic language, yet the genius of the Near East overrides linguistic barriers, and encroaches on the Arabicspeaking world on the one side as well as on the German-speaking world on the other. Syria is essentially a Near Eastern country, and a physical geographer would undoubtedly carry the Near Eastern frontiers up to the desert belt of the Sahara, Nefud and Kevir.

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its policy the British government decided that the two polities under attack were necessary for the balance of power. It therefore undertook to oppose the Russians in both places, one result being the Crimean War. During that war the administration of the British Empire began promulgating a new vocabulary, giving specific regional meaning to the

642:, 1821–1832, created modern Greece, which recovered most of the lands of ancient Greece, but could not gain Constantinople. The Ottoman Porte was continuously under attack from some quarter in its empire, primarily the Balkans. Also, on a number of occasions in the early 19th century, American and British warships had to attack the 884:, which Scribners planned to publish in 1897. Mrs. Norman, a writer herself, wrote glowing letters of the home and person of Mme. Zakki, "the wife of a Turkish cabinet minister," who, she said, was a cultivated woman living in a country home full of books. As for the natives of the Balkans, they were "a semi-civilized people". 1057:, its founder, a former Ottoman high-ranking officer, was insistent on this social revolution, which, among other changes, liberated women from the strait rules still in effect in most Arabic-speaking countries. The demise of the political Near East now left a gap where it had been, into which stepped the Middle East. 1303:

Although racial and colonial definitions of the Middle East are no longer considered ideologically sound, the sentiment of unity persists. For much, but by no means all, of the Middle East, the predominance of Islam lends some unity, as does the accident of geographical continuity. Otherwise there is

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The spirit of the Crusaders may thus be said still to linger in those latitudes which, to give geographical and political cohesion, are here broadly named the Middle and Near East; and, to use a somewhat dangerous but illuminating figure of speech, it may be even be maintained that to-day, as of old,

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The planned book was never published, however Norman published the gist of the book, mixed with vituperation against the Ottoman Empire, in an article in June 1896, in Scribner's Magazine. The empire had descended from an enlightened civilization ruling over barbarians for their own good to something

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have library and museum collections. These are not new; however, the erection of these into "centres" of national and international interest in the second half of the 20th century have created larger databases not available to the scholars of the past. Many of these focus on the ancient Near East or

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The ancient Near East is frozen in time. The living Near East is primarily what the agencies each define as a matter of practice; often guided by their political leadership. In most cases, this single term is inadequate to describe the geographical range in practical applications. This has resulted

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There has been something pathological about the history of this Near Eastern World. It has had an undue share of political misfortunes, and had lain for centuries in a kind of spiritual paralysis between East and West—belonging to neither, partaking paradoxically of both, and wholly unable to rally

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The plain fact is that it is as hard for an Ottoman official to be honest as it is for a camel to enter through the eye of a needle. It is not so much the fault of the men as the fault of the system, which is thoroughly bad from top to bottom... Turkish administration is synonymous with corruption,

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If Norman was apparently attempting to change British policy, it was perhaps William Miller (1864–1945), journalist and expert on the Near East, who did the most in that direction. In essence, he signed the death warrant, so to speak, of the Age of Empires. The fall of the Ottoman Empire ultimately

581:, primarily interested in trade with the east, collaborated with English merchants to form the first trading companies to the far-flung regions, using their own jargon. Their goals were to obtain trading concessions by treaty. The queen chartered the Company of Merchants of the Levant, shortened to 2535:, Great Britain. Among its many activities CSAD numbers "a long-term project to create a library of digitised images of Greek inscriptions." These it arranges by region. The Egypt and the Near East region besides Egypt includes Cyprus, Persia and Afghanistan but not Asia Minor (a separate region). 1135:

The middle East, if I may adopt a term which I have not seen, will some day need its Malta, as well as its Gibraltar; it does not follow that either will be in the Gulf. Naval force has the quality of mobility which carries with it the privilege of temporary absences; but it needs to find on every

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It may be assumed that the most sensitive part of our external policy in the Middle East is the preservation of the independence and integrity of Persia and Afghanistan. Our active interest in Persia began with the present century, and was due to the belief that the invasion of India by a European

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texts. In defense of the Bible as history they said: "The primeval nations, that piled their glorious homes on the Euphrates, the Tigris, and the Nile, are among us again with their archives in their hands; ..." They further defined the nations as "... the countries lying between the Caspian,

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brought a change in vocabulary with the introduction of terms more familiar to the late 19th century. The Russian Empire had entered a more aggressive phase, becoming militarily active against the Ottoman Empire and also against China, with territorial aggrandizement explicitly in mind. Rethinking

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These were fighting words to be coming from a country that once insisted Europe needed Turkey and was willing to spill blood over it. For his authority Miller invokes the people, citing the "collective wisdom" of Europe, and introducing a concept to arise many times in the decades to follow under

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The limits of the Near East are not easy to define. On the north-west, Vienna is the most conspicuous boundary-mark, but one might almost equally well single out Trieste or Lvov or even Prag. Towards the southeast, the boundaries are even more shadowy. It is perhaps best to equate them with the

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and the neighboring colonies of the Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish and Germans. They fit together as a pair based on the opposites of far and near, suggesting that they were innovated together. They appear together in the journals of the mid-19th century. Both terms were used before then with local

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The many and varied specialized agencies that were formed to handle specific aspects of complex international relations, evolved with the terms. Definitions from the present came to be not in concert with those of the past. Reconciling these terms and their definitions remains difficult due to

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was included because it could not easily be reached except through the Ottoman Empire or neighboring Russia. In the 1890s the term tended to focus on the conflicts in the Balkan states and Armenia. The demise of "the sick man of Europe" left considerable confusion as to what was to be meant by

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It remains then to consider whether the Great Powers can solve the Eastern Question ... Foreigners find it extremely difficult to understand the foreign, and especially the Eastern policy of Great Britain, and we cannot wonder at their difficulty, for it seems a mass of contradictions to

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The Nearer East is a term of current fashion for a region which our grandfathers were content to call simply The East. Its area is generally understood to coincide with those classic lands, historically the most interesting on the surface of the globe, which lie about the eastern basin of the

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Englishmen themselves ... At one moment we are bringing about the independence of Greece by sending the Turkish fleet to the bottom of the bay of Navarino. Twenty-seven years later we are spending immense sums and wasting thousands of lives in order to protect the Turks against Russia.

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and Far East did not refer to any particular region. The Far East, a phrase containing a noun, East, qualified by an adjective, far, could be at any location in the "far east" of the speaker's home territory. The Ottoman Empire, for example, was the far East as much as the East Indies. The

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the Persian Gulf, and the Mediterranean ..." The regions in their inventory were Assyria, Chaldea, Mesopotamia, Persia, Armenia, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Ancient Israel, Ethiopia, Caucasus, Libya, Anatolia and Abyssinia. Explicitly excluded is India. No mention is made of the Balkans.

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of United Kingdom recognises a Middle East and North Africa region, but not a Near East. Their original Middle East consumed the Near East as far as the Red Sea, ceded India to the Asia and Oceania region, and went into partnership with North Africa as far as the Atlantic.

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as a noun and adjective was common in the 19th century in nearly every context except diplomacy and archaeology. An uncountable number of places appear to have had their middle easts from gardens to regions, including the United States. The innovation of the term

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Parallel with the growth of specialized agencies for conducting or supporting statescraft in the second half of the 20th century has been the collection of resources for scholarship and research typically in university settings. Most universities teaching the

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recognizes neither a Near East nor a Middle East, dividing the countries instead among three regions: Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, and Africa. Its division "does not forcibly reflect geography" but "refers to the execution of regional activities." The

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on the occasion of the latter's violent demise. The last Roman emperor died fighting hand-to-hand in the streets of his capital, Constantinople, overwhelmed by the Ottoman military, in May 1453. The victors inherited his remaining territory in the Balkans.

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If the British Empire was now going to side with the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire had no choice but to cultivate a relationship with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was supported by the German Empire. In a few years these alignments became the

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and others, defined themselves as making: "... an imperfect conspectus of the arrow-headed writings of the nearer east; writings which cover nearly the whole period of the postdiluvian Old Testament history ..." By arrow-headed writings they meant

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The threat that caused Gordon, diplomat and military officer, to publish the article was resumption of work on a railway from Russia to the Persian Gulf. Gordon, a published author, had not used the term previously, but he was to use it from then on.

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To support the "sick man" in the Near East is an arduous and costly affair; let England, France and America too, beware how they create a "sick giant" in the Far East, for they may rest assured that, if Turkey is European necessity, China is a world

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as though a stable and uncontested polity of that name once existed. The borders did expand and contract but they were always dynamic and always in "question" right from the beginning. The Ottoman Empire was created from the lands of the former

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was certainly one of the earliest presentations of this vocabulary to the general public. They became immediately popular, supplanting "Levant" and "East Indies", which gradually receded to minor usages and then began to change meaning.

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Having supposed that it was sick, he kills it off: "The Near East has never been more true to itself than in its lurid dissolution; past and present are fused together in the flare." To Toynbee the Near East was a spiritual being of a

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divided Asia on a similar basis. In the north is "Scythia this side of the Himalayas" and "Scythia beyond the Himalayas". To the south is "India on this side of the Ganges" and "India beyond the Ganges". Asia began on the coast of

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as a region of international affairs apparently began in British and American diplomatic circles quite independently of each other over concern for the security of the same country: Iran, then known to the west as Persia. In 1900

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scene of operation established bases of refit, of supply, and, in case of disaster, of security. The British Navy should have the facility to concentrate in force, if occasion arise, about Aden, India, and the Gulf.

707:, Thomas Taylor Meadows, was replying to the suggestion by another interpreter that the British Empire was wasting its resources on a false threat from Russia against China. Toward the end of the letter he said: 1312: 1010:. By its end in 1918 three empires were gone, a fourth was about to fall to revolution, and two more, the British and French, were forced to yield in revolutions started under the aegis of their own ideologies. 601:

also means "land of the rising sun", but where Anatolia always only meant the projection of land currently occupied by the Republic of Turkey, Levant meant anywhere in the domain ruled by the Ottoman Porte. The

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to be in conformance with the practices of the State Department. Its views are independent. The WINEP bundles the countries of Northwest Africa together under "North Africa". Details can be found in

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There was a linguistic predisposition to use such terms. The Romans had used them in near Gaul / far Gaul, near Spain / far Spain and others. Before them the Greeks had the habit, which appears in

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in the 19th century) to the "Problem of the Nearer East", which he rephrased around the issue of the future of European colonialism in the Near East, writing that in regards to "the white man":

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in these numerous establishments and publications is Middle East. Expertise on the modern Middle East is almost never mixed or confused with studies of the ancient Near East, although often

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Archaeology on the international scene, though very much of intellectual interest to major universities, was overshadowed by international relations. The archaeologists' domain became the

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From the death of the Near East, new nations were able to rise from the ashes, notably the Republic of Turkey. Paradoxically it now aligned itself with the west rather than with the east.

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continues in some circles at the discretion of the defining agency or academic department. They are not generally considered distinct regions as they were at their original definition.

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ongoing territorial disputes and non-free nuclear powers' territorial ambitions, putting any reconciliation of definitions out of scope of diplomatic corps in the classical sense.

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conducts "bilateral relationships" with the countries of the "Mediterranean – Middle East Region" but has formulated no Near East Region. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the

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the white man and the Cross remain as blindly opposed to the brown man and Islamism, Hinduism and what these creeds postulate, as the most uncompromising bigot could desire.

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because Old Persian cuneiform had been found there. This usage did not sit well with the diplomats; India was left in an equivocal state. They needed a regional term.

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remained popular in diplomatic, trade and journalistic circles, but a variation soon developed among the scholars and the men of the cloth and their associates:

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continued to be used, but evolved in their meaning and scope. This increased confusion, the resolution of which became the study of experts in the new field of

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acquired considerable disrepute in eyes of the English-speaking public as did the Ottoman Empire itself. The cause of the onus was the religiously motivated

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to mean the holdings of the Ottoman Empire as early as the Crimean War had left a geographical gap. The East Indies, or "Far East", derived ultimately from

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began their training in university departments named for the Near East. Similarly the journals associated with these fields of expertise include the words

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but little basis except for history and convention to lump together peoples of multiple, often unrelated languages, governments, loyalties and customs.

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By 1916, when millions of Europeans were becoming casualties of imperial war in the trenches of eastern and western Europe over "the eastern question",

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formulates multiple regional divisions as is convenient for its various operations. But few of them include a Near East, and that poorly defined.

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In 1853 the Russian Empire on behalf of the Slavic Balkan states began to question the very existence of the Ottoman Empire. The result was the

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on the explicit grounds that they were non-Muslim peoples and as such were a potential threat to the Muslim empire within which they lived. The

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to contain the countries included elsewhere in the Middle East. Its total area extends further into Central Asia than that of most agencies.

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Some regions beyond the Ottoman Porte were included. One was North Africa west of Egypt. It was occupied by piratical kingdoms of the

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Throughout this article, Norman uses "Near East" to mean the countries where "the eastern question" applied; that is, to all of the

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targeting Assyrians and Armenians aroused the indignation of the entire Christian world. In the United States, the then aging

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Hogarth then proceeds to say where and why in some detail, but no more mention is made of the classics. His analysis is

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Miller's final pronouncements on the topic could not be ignored by either the British or the Ottoman governments:

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It now became relevant to define the east of the eastern question. In about the middle of the nineteenth century,

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One such institution is the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD) founded by and located centrally at

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In the 20th century, subsequent to major warfare and decades of intense political turmoil, the terms such as

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Working closely in conjunction with the definition of the Near East provided by the State Department is the

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The United States is the chief remaining nation to assign official responsibilities to a region called the

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According to Simpson, the reason why the "Problem of the Nearer East" remained so misunderstood in the

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Apparently the sailor did not connect with the soldier, as Mahan believed he was innovating the term

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Gordon, Thomas Edward (January–June 1900). Knowles, James (ed.). "The Problem of the Middle East".

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controlled territory in the Near East and North Africa, as well as Central and Southeastern Europe.

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This article is about the geographical term. For the geopolitical region that it applies to, see

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The change is evident in the reports of influential British travelers to the Balkans. In 1894,

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recognizes the "Middle East and North Africa" region, where the Middle East is bounded by the

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Travels in the Middle East: Being Impressions by the Way In Turkish Arabia, Syria, and Persia

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read the article. Prince Nicolas of Montenegro wrote a letter thanking him for his article.

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co-existed, but they were not always seen as distinct in the eyes of Western commentators.

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denote the same territories and are "generally accepted as comprising the countries of the

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Meadows, Thomas Taylor (October–December 1855). "Chinese Insurgents and British Policy".

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Mediterranean Sea; but few probably could say offhand where should be the limits and why.

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The Ottoman Empire, believed to be about to collapse, was portrayed in the press as the "

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Much of the colonial administration belonged to this club, which had been formed by the

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always has the same meaning: the ancient nations, people and languages of the enhanced

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as "the Near and Middle East." According to Simpson, the combined region consisted of "

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Islamist Terrorism in Northwestern Africa: A 'Thorn in the neck' of the United States?

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is multiple definitions used differently by each major region, power, or institution.

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chilling circumstances: "... no final solution of the difficulty has yet been found."

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is a term of the 20th century intended to stabilize the geographical application of

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British and American meanings: the near or far east of a field, village or shire.

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to stop their piracy and recover thousands of enslaved Europeans and Americans.

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Retrospect and Prospect: Studies in International Relations Naval and Political

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A second strategic personality from American diplomatic and military circles,

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Maunsell's map, a Pre-World War I British Ethnographical Map of the Near East

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came into use to describe that part of the east closest to Europe. The term

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Norman, Henry (June 1896). "In the Balkans – the Chessboard of Europe".

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The Art of the Middle East, Including Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine

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Australian troops, Gallipoli, 1915. The battle was an Ottoman victory.

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Some of the most influential agencies in the United States still use

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of 1861 (Telford and Barber, unsigned) in reviewing several works by

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Landmarks of Mapmaking: an Illustrated History of Maps and Mapmakers

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The Conflict of Colour: The Threatened Upheaval Throughout the World

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just before the war. The book does not contain a single instance of

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The Conflict of Colour: The Threatened Upheaval Throughout the World

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during earlier times and official British usage. Today, the terms

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Is There a Middle East?: The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept

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Resorting to this verbal device, however, did not protect the

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Table of Near Eastern countries recognized by various agencies

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of 1590 labels all of Asia from the Caspian to the Pacific as

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Amanat, Abbas (2012). "Conceptual Origins of the Near East".

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In Miller's view, the Ottoman officials were unfit to rule:

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transported the first ambassador, William Harebone, to the

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refer to areas of the globe in or contiguous to the former

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of the United States, called also statecraft by Secretary

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Toynbee, Arnold J.; Great Britain Foreign Office (1916).

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Ancient Near Eastern Texts relating to the Old Testament

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are used interchangeably to refer to the same region.

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without any implication of modern times. For example,

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often included the Balkans. Robert Hichens' 1913 book

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is subtitled "Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople".

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attempted to define it on the basis of archaeology.

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Geographical term that roughly encompasses West Asia

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Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 2988:"East India Company, 1817-1827 - Archives Hub" 1368:Logotype of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs 4037: 3906: 3512:. Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from 3482:. Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from 3055: 3043: 3031: 2957: 2945: 2382:, one of four directorates into which the US 1360:Influential agencies represented in the table 1144:. It was, however, already there to be seen. 1044:-character", connected to both east and west: 401:applied to what had been mainly known as the 356:, leapt into the war of words and joined the 38:. For the ancient history of the region, see 8: 3673:Telford, John; Barber, Aquila. "Article I". 2976:. London: The Hakluyt Society. p. viii. 2543:A large percentage of experts on the modern 935:and needed, in his view, to be suppressed), 795:in 1902, in which he stated his view of the 3203:. London: Lowe, Marston & Company: 413. 2362:on the west and includes Iran on the east. 1475:. 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