13 Facts About Near East

Near East is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the historical Fertile Crescent, and later the Levant region.

The term Far Near East appeared contemporaneously meaning Japan, China, Korea, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Near East applied to what had been mainly known as the Levant, which was in the jurisdiction of the Ottoman Porte, or government.

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.

Nearer East is a term of current fashion for a region which our grandfathers were content to call simply The East.

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Near East's map delineates the Nearer East with regular lines as though surveyed.

In 1894, Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet, a journalist, traveled to the Far Near East, afterwards writing a book called The Peoples and Politics of the Far Near East, which came out in 1895.

The demise of the political Near East now left a gap where it had been, into which stepped the Middle East.

The innovation of the term Near East to mean the holdings of the Ottoman Empire as early as the Crimean War had left a geographical gap.

However, Near East continues in some circles at the discretion of the defining agency or academic department.

The living Near East is primarily what the agencies each define as a matter of practice; often guided by their political leadership.

Washington Institute for Near East Policy is a non-profit organization for research and advice on Middle Eastern policy.

Ancient Near East is a term of the 20th century intended to stabilize the geographical application of Near East to ancient history.