Fertile Crescent
English
The extent of the Fertile Crescent.
Etymology
Coined by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɜːtaɪl ˈkɹɛsənt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɝːtəl ˈkɹɛsənt/
Proper noun
- (historical) A crescent-shaped strip of fertile land stretching from present-day Iraq through eastern Turkey and down the Syrian and Israeli coasts.
- 1914, James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, Charles Austin Beard, Outlines of European History: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece, and Rome:
- This great semicircle, for lack of a name, may be called the fertile crescent.
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Translations
crescent-shaped arc of fertile land
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