Alan says
“The geographic term known as the Middle East is wrong too, because that area used to be known as North-East Africa.”
I recall my ‘A’ level geography textbooks referring to this region as “South-West Asia.”
I also recall magazines and newspapers published during the Second World War referring to a region they called the “Near-East” (a term which I think has since fallen out of use). They meant either North Africa from the Atlantic to Egypt [later called “The Maghreb”] or what had historically been that part of Europe formerly part of the Ottoman Empire.
Confusing yeah? — and an argument for defining terms almost every time they are used. 🙂
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This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by GwynnThomas.
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This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by GwynnThomas.