Fertile Crescent definition

Fertile Crescent

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WordNet

(1) A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates

WiktionaryText

Coined by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted.

(Ancient History) A crescent-shaped strip of fertile land stretching from present-day Iraq through eastern Turkey and down the Syrian and Israeli coasts.