NationMaster - Middle East

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Bahrain (View 10 more maps)	Cyprus (View 11 more maps)	Iran (View 29 more maps)	Iraq (View 76 more maps)
Israel (View 41 more maps)	Jordan (View 16 more maps)	Kuwait (View 12 more maps)	Lebanon (View 21 more maps)
Oman (View 13 more maps)	Qatar (View 10 more maps)	Saudi Arabia (View 13 more maps)	Syria (View 19 more maps)
Turkey (View 38 more maps)	United Arab Emirates (View 15 more maps)	Yemen (View 28 more maps)

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COMMENTARY

MikeS 19th November 2010	Palestinian was war spoil held by Israeli after being attacked by its neighbors. The region should be given back to Jordan and Egypt upon appropriate compensation for starting the war. Jordan has a history of being far more tolerant of decent then Israel.
Vivian 10th November 2005	I think your website is good. You have all the info needed for my project! I come here and I can find all the stuff I need. I do think your website needs a little more spark. Here is an example more color so when people come here they would like the color you put on your website! And they would love to come back. Every thing else is perfect!
janissary 22nd July 2005	In response to jonathan:Turkey's %3 is larger than Luxembourg,Malta,Southern Cyprus or Liechtenstein as you should know.If they were accepted,Turkey can be accepted too.EU is not a Crusader Club so there is no need to scare from our religion.Ottoman Empire was Middle Eastern,Eastern,European and African.Our ex-states could join to EU like Romania so we can do it too.Let's come to human rights.What do you know about this?Our polices don't cosh university students like French ones.We don't free the terrorists like the modern(!) Europe!Don't be so impatient we are coming to assimilate you(As you scared from);))
Oscar 15th July 2005	Just because Turkish borrows a couple of words from Persian and some of their culture, it does not mean they have deep ties to the Middle East. Like Hungarians, Turks come from Central Asia and so their languages have common roots. Greeks have a longer history with the Persians which goes back to around Alexander the Great's time. Like Greek, Persian is a Indo-European language and in addition, Greek contains plenty of Persian vocab. Greece above all has a deeper ties to the Middle East. The Kalash people are Greeks, as they say they are, and have lived around Northern Pakistan long before Jesus and the Turkish invasions into Europe and the Middle East.
� 26th April 2005	Cyrus, what about the areas held by the French? I believe your definition is outdated since most people these days are not very much familiar with the way you define the Middle East.
Cyrus Hayat 25th April 2005	Iran/Persia has never and is not a part of the Middle East. Middle East refers to the area under the Ottomann empire and next to the edge of the Eastern/Persian Empire before WWI and were given independence by the Great Britain. Those countries are Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Isreal/Palestine, and Arabian Pennsula (including the Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Qatar...).
Zim Nuegut 10th February 2005	Alex, Afghanistan is a part of Asia not the Middle East and it borders Iran to the east and is located directly north of Pakistan.
Astrid 2nd January 2005	This website is great for school projects but would you please include Afghanistan in this section. I couldn't find info about this country at all in any website
erfan 6th December 2004	why in the world isn't Palestine recognised, while Israel is recognised
yisel garzon 15th November 2004	Why palestinian is not a country?

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