The Middle East: A Physical, Social, and Regional Geography

agricultural air masses Aleppo Anatolia Arab Arabia areas Armenian Armenoid Asia Minor Badawin Baghdad basins Beirut Black Sea Britain British cent central centre century cereals Christian climatic coast coastal coastlands communities considerable cotton crops cultivation cultural Cyprus Cyrenaica Damascus deposits desert districts economic Egypt Egyptian Empire Euphrates Europe existence export extensive extreme factor favourable feature feet fold further hence humidity important industry influence inland Iran Iranian Iraq irrigation Islam Israel Jebel Kurds land later Lebanon Levant limestone lower lowlands Mediterranean Mesopotamia Middle East Middle Eastern miles Moslem mountain nomadic north-west northern occur oilfields Ottoman Palestine Persian Gulf plain plant plateau political population production racial rain rainfall ranges region rise river rock Russia scale Shatt el Arab soil south-west southern steppe summer Syria temperature Tigris trade Turkey Turkish vegetation wadis western wheat whilst winter Zagros zone