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Near East

— noun (= Middle East) the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization

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Middle East

Mideast

Levant

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By 1 506, the Portuguese had a near monopoly on shipping along the East African coast.