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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Ancient_Near_East&oldid=228417096"><P>refers to early <A title="Civilization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization">civilizations</A> in a region roughly corresponding to the modern <A title="Middle East" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East">Middle East</A>: <A title="Mesopotamia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</A> (modern <A title="Iraq" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq">Iraq</A> and <A title="Syria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria">Syria</A>), <A class="mw-redirect" title="Persia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persia">Persia</A> (modern <A title="Iran" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran">Iran</A>), <A title="Armenia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia">Armenia</A>, <A title="Anatolia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia">Anatolia</A> (modern <A title="Turkey" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey">Turkey</A>), the <A title="Levant" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant">Levant</A> (modern <A title="Syria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria">Syria</A>, <A title="Lebanon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon">Lebanon</A>, <A title="Israel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel">Israel</A>, <A title="Palestine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine">Palestine</A>, and <A title="Jordan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan">Jordan</A>), and <A title="Ancient Egypt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt">Ancient Egypt</A>, from the beginnings of <A title="Sumer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer">Sumer</A> in the 6th millennium BC until the region's conquest by <A title="Alexander the Great" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great">Alexander the Great</A> in the 4th century BC.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DAA75695-8DE4-4ABA-BB3B-A604ACB8E4C3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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