Where is Near East especially during WW2?

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Where is Near East especially during WW2?

2007-10-26 05:11:24 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History

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Turkey, Syria, Egypt - the Near East
Iraq, Persia - the Middle East
India, Malaya - the East
China, Japan - the Far East - Winston Churchill.
Now, however, the Middle East seems to have shifted westwards and the Near East not to exist much any more.

2007-10-26 05:33:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋

It was a vague sort of reference to countries (south of Russia) east of the Mediterranean but "near" England, which considered itself the center of the World (e.g., time zones based on Greenwich). The dividing line between Near and Far seemed to be India, roughly.

2007-10-26 12:20:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

North Africa from Morocco to Egypt

2007-10-26 12:41:42 · answer #3 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋