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Levantine
LEVANTINE Noun or adjective that defines the non-Muslim populations and cultures of the modern Middle East. The term levantine is French in origin Read more |
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Church of the East
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Middle East
Middle East term traditionally applied by western Europeans to the countries of SW Asia and NE Africa lying W of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Thus defined it includes Cyprus, the Asian part of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, the countries of the... Read more |
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Malay
Malay ETHNONYMS: Malayan, Malaysian, Melayu Orientation Malays live chiefly in peninsular Malaysia, where they are more than half of the population. Malays also live in East Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak), on the coasts of Sumatra and other islands of Indonesia, extending up to the Sulu... Read more |
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East Australian Current
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Far East Air Force
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Dagon
Dagon , god of fertility, widely worshiped in the Middle East, particularly in Canaan. In the Bible he is mentioned as one of the chief deities of the Philistines.... Read more |
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Natufian
Natufian of, relating to, or denoting a late Mesolithic culture of the Middle East, dated to about 12,500–10,000 years ago, which provides evidence for the first settled villages, and is characterized by the use of microliths and of bone for implements. The name comes from Wadi an-Natuf, the... Read more |
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Orientalism
Orientalism BIBLIOGRAPHY Orientalism refers principally to the academic study during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries of the peoples, languages, and cultures of North Africa, the Middle East, and, to a lesser degree, South Asia. In art history, the term refers to a... Read more |
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Far East
Far East in the most restricted sense, region comprising the countries of E Asia, namely China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan, and the easternmost portion of Russian Siberia (see Russian Far East ). In a more extended sense, the term includes the countries of Southeast... Read more |
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