Re: OT: an axe to grind
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 13, 2006, 10:39 |
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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.
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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