Individual #Middle_East__Near_East  the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to North 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; "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization"
  part:  Operation_Desert_Storm  Six_Day_War  Arab-Israeli_War  Fertile_Crescent  Israel  State_of_Israel  Egypt  Iran  Iraq  Jordan  Kuwait  Lebanon  Saudi_Arabia  Syria  Turkey
  type:  geographical_area__geographic_area__geographical_region__geographic_region  a demarcated area of the Earth

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