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noun • 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 | ||||||||
| 39% | 5 | Can be found in various countries including Israel, Turkey, and Cyprus | ||||||
noun • An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre. • A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m2), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma. • Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m2). | ||||||||
| 31% | 7 | Incorporated into the Israel Defense Forces after the establishment of Israel | ||||||
noun • the clandestine military wing of the Jewish leadership during the British rule over the mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948; became the basis for the Israeli defense force | ||||||||
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