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example, William Ouseley used the phrase in 1795 in Persian Miscellanies to refer to a region including Syria, Mesopotamia, Chaldea and Persia. In the context of the history of classical antiquity, "Western Asia" could mean the part of Asia known in classical antiquity, as opposed to the reaches of "interior Asia", i.e. Scythia, and "Eastern Asia" the easternmost reaches of geographical knowledge in classical authors, i.e. Transoxania

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