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Fertile Crescent

/ˈfɜːtaɪl ˈkɹɛsənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
Creciente fértil
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, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt and Cyprus.
The Fertile Crescent has always been in close touch with the other parts of the Middle East: Turkey, Iran, the Arabian peninsula, and Egypt.
This great semicircle, for lack of a name, may be called the fertile crescent.
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