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Definition of Fertile crescent

1. Noun. A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates.

Definition of Fertile crescent

1. Proper noun. (Ancient History) A crescent-shaped strip of fertile land stretching from present-day Iraq through eastern Turkey and down the Syrian and Israeli coasts. ¹

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Literary usage of Fertile crescent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Europe, Ancient and Medieval: Earliest Man, the Orient, Greece by James Henry Breasted, James Harvey Robinson (1920)
"This fertile crescent is approximately a semicircle, with the open side toward the south, having the west end at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean, ..."

2. Ancient Times, a History of the Early World: An Introduction to the Study of by James Henry Breasted (1916)
"The fertile crescent.1 It may also be likened to the shores of a desert-bay, upon which the mountains behind look down — a bay not of water but of sandy ..."

3. Genes in the Field: On-Farm Conservation of Crop Diversity by Stephen B. Brush (2000)
"The wild progenitor of cultivated barley, Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum, is still widely distributed along the fertile crescent where, particularly in the ..."

4. A General History of Europe: From the Origins of Civilization to the Present by James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, Emma Peters Smith (1921)
"(This is called the " fertile crescent " on the map, p. 24, and colored green.) The desert had a sparse population of nomads (which means wandering ..."

5. Outlines of European History by James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, Charles Austin Beard (1914)
"79). This southern advance of the Indo-European eastern wing was thus overwhelming the Semitic right wing (Fig. 49), occupying the fertile crescent. ..."

6. Survey of the Ancient World by James Henry Breasted (1919)
"Medes and Persians further west toward the fertile crescent We are now to watch the'eastern wing of the vast Indo- European line as it swings southward and ..."

7. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1921)
"To these directions of north-west and north-east of Arabia lay the lands of the ' fertile crescent ', namely, Mesopotamia and Syria which are like earthly ..."

8. The War and the Bagdad Railway: The Story of Asia Minor and Its Relation to by Morris Jastrow (1918)
"Hinterland and " fertile crescent " stand and fall together. An empire in the East requires firm possession of both as the condition of permanence. ..."

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