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The the Middle East is an area of Asia and Africa, including/understanding the countries of the south-east of the Mediterranean basin . One also indicates it under the name become from now on very current of the Middle East (translation of the Anglo-Saxon expression more and more largely used Middle East ), or of Raising .
Etymology
The expression “the Middle East” finds its origin in the French vocabulary of the end of the 19th century. It indicated the part of the Ottoman Empire which corresponded to the French strategic interests of the time. The use of the “close” adjective made it possible to divide the East into the “Far East”, located in East Asia, and the “Middle East”, in the east of the Mediterranean basin. Today, one tends to be used indistinctly “the Middle East” and “the Middle East” (translation of English Middle East , privileging the first term when one indicates the countries bordering on the Eastern Mediterranean).
Territory
It generally includes/understands the following countries:
- countries of the Machrek, the Egypt to the Iraq while passing by the Arabic peninsula, and more particularly:
One there assistant sometimes by extension
- European Mediterranean countries partially :
- other Mediterranean countries of the the Maghreb, for historical reasons or of cultural proximity:
- the Anglo-Saxons add to it sometimes countries of the Caucasus:
- Arménie
- Georgia
- Azerbaïdjan
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