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Re: OT: an axe to grind

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Monday, February 13, 2006, 10:39
On 2/13/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> Furnée places the home in the north of 'Vorderasien' which, if I am not > mistaken, is that part world that we Brits called the 'Near East' when i > was a youngster, but is now more commonly called 'Middle East' (which in > those far off days didn't begin till you got to Iran), i.e. from > Mediterranean coast to Iraq.
"Vorderasien" includes Asia Minor, AFAIK -- in particular, the area currently covered by (Anatolian) Turkey. -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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