Near East

Proper noun

 * 1) The region located south of Eastern Europe, comprising Anatolia, Transcaucasia, the Levant, and Mesopotamia.

Usage notes
Definitions vary between different academic areas, the term originally being applied to the maximum extent of the Ottoman Empire. Outside of historical studies, the term is generally deprecated in favour of. However, the term is still commonly preferred when discussing the region in ancient times.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Nabye Ooste
 * Arabic: شَرْق أَدْنَى
 * Armenian: Մերձավոր Արեւելք
 * Belarusian: Блі́зкі Усхо́д
 * Bulgarian: Бли́зък Изто́к
 * Catalan: Pròxim Orient
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Nærorienten
 * Dutch: Nabije Oosten
 * Esperanto: Proksimoriento, Proksima Oriento
 * Estonian: Lähis-Ida
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ახლო აღმოსავლეთი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: Neasoirthear
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ដើមបូព៌ា
 * Korean:
 * Latin: Oriens Proximus
 * Macedonian: Близок Исток
 * Malay: Timur Dekat
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Oriente Próximo, Próximo Oriente
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Блиски исток
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:, Próximo Oriente, Cercano Oriente
 * Swedish: Främre Orienten
 * Tagalog: Malapit na Silangan
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: Близьки́й Схід
 * Vietnamese: Cận Đông