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In 1853 the Russian Empire on behalf of the Slavic Balkan states began to question the very existence of the Ottoman Empire. The result was the Crimean War, 1853–1856, in which the British Empire and the French Empire supported the Ottoman Empire in its struggle against the incursions of the Russian Empire. Eventually,...
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The Ottoman Empire eventually lost control of what region?
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For example, The London Review of 1861 (Telford and Barber, unsigned) in reviewing several works by Rawlinson, Layard and others, defined themselves as making:
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When was the London Review?
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Rawlinson, Layard and others were reviewed in what?
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Who wrote The London Review of 1861?
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By the time of John Seller's Atlas Maritima of 1670, "India Beyond the Ganges" had become "the East Indies" including China, Korea, southeast Asia and the islands of the Pacific in a map that was every bit as distorted as Ptolemy's, despite the lapse of approximately 1500 years. That "east" in turn was only an English ...
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When was John Seller's Atlas Maritima?
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What had "India Beyond the Ganges" become?
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China, Korea, southeast Asia and the islands of the Pacific were included in what?
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What was only an English translation of Latin Oriens and Orientalis, "the land of the rising sun"?
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What year did Jodocus Hondius make his world map?
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The Encyclopædia Britannica defines the Near East as including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the West Bank, and Yemen. The Food and Agriculture Organization (...
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Who defines the Near East as including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt. Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Isreal, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the West Bank, and Yemen?
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations also includes what Country in the definition of Near East?
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What group believes the terms Near East and Middle East denote the same territories?
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The first real progress toward a modern understanding of nervous function, though, came from the investigations of Luigi Galvani, who discovered that a shock of static electricity applied to an exposed nerve of a dead frog could cause its leg to contract. Since that time, each major advance in understanding has followe...
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Who found out that a shock of electricity to an exposed nerve of a dead frog caused contractions?
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The tool that was invented to stain only a small fractions of neurons was called what?
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What nationality was santiago Ramon y Cajal?
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In the second half of the 20th century, developments in chemistry, electron microscopy, genetics, computer science, functional brain imaging, and other fields progressively opened new windows into brain structure and function. In the United States, the 1990s were officially designated as the "Decade of the Brain" to co...
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Which decade in history was officially called the "Decade of the Brain"?
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Some regions beyond the Ottoman Porte were included. One was North Africa west of Egypt. It was occupied by piratical kingdoms of the Barbary Coast, de facto independent since the 18th century. Formerly part of the empire at its apogee. Iran was included because it could not easily be reached except through the Ottoman...
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What was one region included that was occupied by piratical kingdoms?
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Where were the piratical kingdoms from?
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Why was Iran included in the collection of regions?
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What did the term Near East focus on in the 1890s?
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The demise of what left considerable confusion as to what was to be meant by "Near East"
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It has pleased western historians to write of a decline of the Ottoman Empire as though a stable and uncontested polity of that name once existed. The borders did expand and contract but they were always dynamic and always in "question" right from the beginning. The Ottoman Empire was created from the lands of the form...
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What has pleased western historians?
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What was always in question from the beginning of the Ottoman Empire?
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What was the Ottoman Empire created from?
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How did the last Roman emperor die?
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Where was the Roman emperor's capital?
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What was one of the earliest presentations of this vocabulary?
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What was said must represent usage by that administration?
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Who had formed the club that contained much of the colonial administration?
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When was a reprint of a letter sent to The Times appear in Littel's Living Age?
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Who was the author of the letter sent to the Times?
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What was Thomas Taylor Meadows replying to?
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The Ottoman Empire, believed to be about to collapse, was portrayed in the press as the sick man of Europe". The Balkan states, with the partial exception of Bosnia and Albania, were primarily Christian. Starting in 1894 the Ottomans struck at the Armenians on the explicit grounds that they were a non-Muslim people and...
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How was the Ottoman Empire portrayed in the press?
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The Balkan states were primarily what religion?
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When did the Ottomans strike at the Armenians?
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What are the grounds on which the Ottomans struck at the Armenians?
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What aroused the indignation of the entire Christian world?
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The regions in their inventory were Assyria, Chaldea, Mesopotamia, Persia, Armenia, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Ethiopia, Caucasus, Libya, Anatolia and Abyssinia. Explicitly excluded is India. No mention is made of the Balkans.
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What region was explicitly excluded?
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What region has no mention?
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Assyria, Chaldea, Mesopotamia, Persia, Armenia, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Ethiopia, Caucasus, Libya, Anatolia, and Abyssinia were all what?
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It now became relevant to define the east of the eastern question. In about the middle of the 19th century "Near East" came into use to describe that part of the east closest to Europe. The term "Far East" appeared contemporaneously meaning Japan, China, Korea, Indonesia and Viet Nam; in short, the East Indies. "Near E...
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When did "Near East" come into use to describe the part of the east closest to Europe?
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In short, the term Far East appeared to name this area
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"Near East" applied to this mainly known area
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What was the jurisdiction of the Levant in?
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What was needed to set foot on most of the shores of the southern and central Mediterranean?
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What does Norman mean in the article when saying "Near East"?
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What is the rest of the Ottoman domain demoted to?
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"The East" refers to what?
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These were fighting words to be coming from a country that once insisted Europe needed Turkey and was willing to spill blood over it. For his authority Miller invokes the people, citing the "collective wisdom" of Europe, and introducing a concept to arise many times in the decades to follow under chilling circumstances...
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Miller's words were considered what?
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It was considered Europe needed what country?
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What was Miller citing?
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The threat that caused Gordon, diplomat and military officer, to publish the article was resumption of work on a railway from Russia to the Persian Gulf. Gordon, a published author, had not used the term previously, but he was to use it from then on.
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What threat caused Gordon to publish his article?
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Who was a diplomat and military officer?
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Who had not used the term middle east previously in publications?
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In the last years of the 19th century the term "Near East" acquired considerable disrepute in eyes of the English-speaking public as did the Ottoman Empire itself. The cause of the onus was the Hamidian Massacres of Armenians because they were Christians, but it seemed to spill over into the protracted conflicts of the...
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When did the term "Near East" acquire considerable disrepute?
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The term "Near East" acquired considerable disrepute in whose eyes?
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In the last years of the 19th century the term "Near East" acquired considerable disrepute in eyes of the English-speaking public as did the Ottoman Empire itself. The cause of the onus was the Hamidian Massacres of Armenians because they were Christians, but it seemed to spill over into the protracted conflicts of the...
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What was the cause of the onus?
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What was the cause of the Hamidian Massacres of Armenians?
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When was Robert Hickens' book wrote?
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By 1916, when millions of Europeans were becoming casualties of imperial war in the trenches of eastern and western Europe over "the eastern question," Arnold J. Toynbee, Hegelesque historian of civilization at large, was becoming metaphysical about the Near East. Geography alone was not a sufficient explanation of the...
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What year was Arnold J toynbee becoming metaphysical about the Near East?
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Who was the Hegelesque historian of civilization?
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Arnold J Toynbee believed what?
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Hogarth then proceeds to say where and why in some detail, but no more mention is made of the classics. His analysis is geopolitical. His map delineates the Nearer East with regular lines as though surveyed. They include Iran, the Balkans, but not the Danube lands, Egypt, but not the rest of North Africa. Except for th...
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What does Hogarth say in detail?
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Hogarth makes no mention of what?
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How is Hogarth's analysis?
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Elizabeth I of England, primarily interested in trade with the east, collaborated with English merchants to form the first trading companies to the far-flung regions, using their own jargon. Their goals were to obtain trading concessions by treaty. The queen chartered the Company of Merchants of the Levant, shortened t...
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Where was Elizabeth I from?
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What was Elizabeth primarily interested in?
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Who did Elizabeth I collaborate with?
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What was the goal of the first trading companies?
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What company was charted in 1600 for trade to the East Indies?
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A second strategic personality from American diplomatic and military circles, Alfred Thayer Mahan, concerned about the naval vulnerability of the trade routes in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean, commented in 1902:
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Who was a member of American diplomatic and military circles?
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What was Alfred Thayer Mahan concerned about?
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When did Alfred Thayer Mahan comment on the trade routes?
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There was a linguistic predisposition to use such terms. The Romans had used them in near Gaul / far Gaul, near Spain / far Spain and others. Before them the Greeks had the habit, which appears in Linear B, the oldest known script of Europe, referring to the near province and the far province of the kingdom of Pylos. U...
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Who used the terms near Gaul?
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The appearance of what culture using the terms appears in Linear B?
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Usually the terms were given when referencing what?
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"Near East" remained popular in diplomatic, trade and journalistic circles, but a variation soon developed among the scholars and the men of the cloth and their associates: "the Nearer East," reverting to the classical and then more scholarly distinction of "nearer" and "farther." They undoubtedly saw a need to separat...
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What remained popular in diplomatic, trade and journalistic circles?
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"Near East" remained popular in diplomatic, trade and journalistic circles, but a variation soon developed among the scholars and the men of the cloth and their associates: "the Nearer East," reverting to the classical and then more scholarly distinction of "nearer" and "farther." They undoubtedly saw a need to separat...
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What variation soon developed among the scholars and the men of the cloth and their associates?
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"Near East" remained popular in diplomatic, trade and journalistic circles, but a variation soon developed among the scholars and the men of the cloth and their associates: "the Nearer East," reverting to the classical and then more scholarly distinction of "nearer" and "farther." They undoubtedly saw a need to separat...
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There was a need to separate what from the terrain of the Ottoman Empire?
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What did the Christians see the country as?
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How did the scholars attempt their definition?
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Apparently the sailor did not connect with the soldier, as Mahan believed he was innovating the term Middle East. It was, however, already there to be seen.
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Who did not connect with the soldier?
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Apparently the sailor did not connect with the soldier, as Mahan believed he was innovating the term Middle East. It was, however, already there to be seen.
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What did Mahan believe he was innovating?
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What had already been there to be seen?
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From the death of the Near East new nations were able to rise from the ashes, notably the Republic of Turkey. Paradoxically it now aligned itself with the west rather than with the east. Mustafa Kemal, its founder, a former Ottoman high-ranking officer, was insistent on this social revolution, which, among other change...
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What was able to rise from the death of the Near East?
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From the death of the Near East new nations were able to rise from the ashes, notably the Republic of Turkey. Paradoxically it now aligned itself with the west rather than with the east. Mustafa Kemal, its founder, a former Ottoman high-ranking officer, was insistent on this social revolution, which, among other change...
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What notable nation was able to rise from the ashes of the Near East?
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How did the Republic of Turkey align themselves?
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Who was the founder of the Republic of Turkey?
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[ "Mustafa Kemal" ]
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Who was a former Ottoman high-ranking officer?
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The use of the term Middle East as a region of international affairs apparently began in British and American diplomatic circles quite independently of each other over concern for the security of the same country: Iran, then known to the west as Persia. In 1900 Thomas Edward Gordon published an article, The Problem of ...
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Where did the use of the term Middle East as a region of international affairs begin?
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What was Iran known as to the west?
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When did Thomas Edward Gordon publish "The Problem of the Middle East"?
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What article did Thomas Edward Gordon publish?
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The problem of the Middle East was published by who?
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The term middle east as a noun and adjective was common in the 19th century in nearly every context except diplomacy and archaeology. An uncountable number of places appear to have had their middle easts from gardens to regions, including the United States. The innovation of the term "Near East" to mean the holdings of...
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When was the term middle east common as a noun and adjective?
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The middle east was not common in diplomacy and what other context?
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Where did the "Far East" derive from?
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Where did the Ottoman Empire end?
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SQuAD
The term middle east as a noun and adjective was common in the 19th century in nearly every context except diplomacy and archaeology. An uncountable number of places appear to have had their middle easts from gardens to regions, including the United States. The innovation of the term "Near East" to mean the holdings of...
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Why did archaeologists count Iran as "The Near East"?
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SQuAD
Until about 1855 the words near east and far east did not refer to any particular region. The far East, a phrase containing a noun, East, qualified by an adjective, far, could be at any location in the "far east" of the speaker's home territory. The Ottoman Empire, for example, was the far East as much as the East Indi...
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Until what year did the words near east and far east not refer to any particular region?
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