The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. The Middle East is a subregion of Africa-Eurasia, or more specifically, Asia, and sometimes North Africa.The area encompasses several cultural and ethnic groups, including the Persian, Arabic, and Turkish cultures. The four main language groups are Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and Hebrew.
From Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran it is the site of ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam having had a continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century. It can be seen as "the cradle of Western civilization", historically speaking of course.

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