Fertile Crescent

English

Etymology

Coined by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɜːtaɪl ˈkɹɛsənt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɝːtəl ˈkɹɛsənt/
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Proper noun

the Fertile Crescent

  2. (historical) 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, Jordan, Israel and Palestine.
    • 1914, James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, Charles Austin Beard, Outlines of European History: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece, and Rome:
      This great semicircle, for lack of a name, may be called the fertile crescent.
    • 1988, Charles Issawi, The Fertile Crescent, 1800-1914: A Documentary Economic History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
      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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