Fertile Crescent

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A region of the Middle East arching across the northern part of the Syrian Desert and extending from the Nile Valley to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The civilizations of Egypt, Phoenicia, Assyria, and Babylonia developed in this area, which was also the site of numerous migrations and invasions.

Fertile Crescent

(Placename) an area of fertile land in the Middle East, extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates in a semicircle from Israel to the Persian Gulf, where the Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Phoenician, and Hebrew civilizations flourished

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Fertile Crescent - a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates

Middle East, Mideast, Near East - the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century; "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization"

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Remember ladies, "Good, strong knickers underneath your nightgown will inhibit access to the fertile crescent.

BOOK GROUP by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

According to a report in New Scientist, the death knell for the Fertile Crescent has been rung as Turkish dams reduce the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to a trickle, farmers abandon their desiccated fields across Iraq and Syria, and efforts to revive the Mesopotamian marshes appear to be abandoned.

Mesopotamia's 'Fertile Crescent' may disappear this century by Asian News International

About 10,000 year ago a woman from a plant-gathering tribe, somewhere on the Middle East's Fertile Crescent, returned home after a long day collecting seed in the wild for food.

Women can play crucial role in Sudan's food security by Sudan Tribune (Sudan)