![]() People usually confuse Middle East with Western Asia. The Middle East was called "Al Mashriq" Arabic word for "where the sun rises" referring to the Eastern part of the Arab world (Egypt, the Levant, The Arabian peninsula and Iraq) The non Arab countries were later added to the list when the western terms were created in the 19th and 20th century (Iran, Turkey, Israel and Cyprus). The western part of the Arab world was called the “Maghreb” which is an Arabic word meaning “Where the sun sets” referring to the Western part of the Arab world, the other half of the Arab world. It was created by Arab geographers and Historians such as Ibn Khaldun in the Middle Ages and the main criteria was to split the Western Berber Arab countries (Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco) from the Arab mainlands (Egypt, the Levant, the Arabian peninsula and Iraq). The geographical territory of the Middle East was created way before the Western terms "Middle East/Near East". Some definitions are broader than ours and include one or more of Libya (which is in North Africa), the Sudan or Cyprus. Turkey can be considered as part of Europe, while Egypt is part of North Africa and Iran has strong connections to Central Asia. Some countries included in the Middle East by most definitions, and included in our list below, also overlap into other regions. The term "Middle East" was created by the British in the 19th century due to the important trading routes such as the Suez Canal and the Persian Gulf and there is no precise definition it is a political term as much as geographical, but also Eurocentric, implying that it separates "the West" ( Europe) from the Far East. Being close to the great salt lake and the ancient town of Varzaneh.
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