The Middle East: A Physical, Social and Regional Geography

Aegean agricultural Aleppo Anatolia Arab Arabia areas Armenian Asia Minor Badawin Baghdad barley basins Basra Beirut Black Sea Britain British Caspian cent central centre cereals chief climatic coast coastal plain coastlands considerable cotton crop cultivation Cyprus Cyrenaica Damascus deposits desert districts economic Egypt Euphrates export extensive extreme factor favourable feature feet fold further grown hence important inches industry influence inland Iran Iranian Iraq irrigation Jebel Lake land later Lebanon Levant limestone lower lowlands Mediterranean Mesopotamia Middle East Middle Eastern miles mineral Moslem mountain Nile nomadic north-west northern occur oilfields Ottoman Palestine Persian Gulf plateau political population production railway rainfall ranges region rise river rock Russia salt scale Shatt el Arab soil south-east south-west southern steppe summer Syria temperature Tigris towns trade Transjordan Turkey Turkish uplands valley vegetation wadis western wheat whilst winter Zagros zone