Fertile Crescent
name/ˈfɜːtaɪl ˈkɹɛsənt/UK/ˈfɝːtəl ˈkɹɛsənt/US
Etymology
Coined by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted.
Definitions
A crescent-shaped geographic region of fertile land in the Middle East in Western Asia,…
A crescent-shaped geographic region of fertile land in the Middle East in Western Asia, stretching from present-day Iraq through eastern Turkey to Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt and Cyprus.
- This great semicircle, for lack of a name, may be called the fertile crescent.
- The Fertile Crescent has always been in close touch with the other parts of the Middle East: Turkey, Iran, the Arabian peninsula, and Egypt.
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