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Fertile Crescent

Fer·tile Cres·cent [ fúrt'l krèss'nt ]
Definition:
 
fertile area in Middle East: area of fertile land in Southwest Asia reaching from Israel to the Persian Gulf and incorporating the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq. The ancient Babylonian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Phoenician, and Hebrew civilizations arose here.

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