Wastren Asie , Wast Asie , Soothwast Asie or Soothwastren Asie are terms that describe the wastmaist portion o Asie . The terms are pairtly coterminous wi the Middle East , which describes a geographical poseetion in relation tae Wastren Europe rather than its location athin Asie. Due tae this perceivit Eurocentrism , internaitional organisations sic as the Unitit Naitions , ^[1] hae replacit Middle East an Near East wi Wastren Asie . This region an Europe are collectively referred tae as Wastren Eurasie .

Wastren Asien kintras includes:

• Armenie
• Azerbaijan
• Bahrain
• Cyprus
• Egyp
• Georgie
• Iran
• Iraq
• Israel
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Lebanon
• Oman
• Palestine ( Wast Baunk an Gaza )
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabie
• Sirie
• The Unitit Arab Emirates
• Turkey
• Yemen

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The warld's earliest ceevilizations developit in Wastren Asie. For maist o the last three millennia, the region haes been unitit unner ane or twa powerful states; ilka ane succeeding the last, an at times, eastren an wastren based polities. The main states in this regaird war the Assirie Empire , the Babylonie Empire , the Achaemenid Empire , the Seleucid Empire , the Parthian Empire , the Roman Empire , the Sassanid Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Umayyad Caliphate , the Abbasid Caliphate , the Safavid Empire , an the Ottoman Empire .

Wastren Asie is the birthplace o Islam , Christianity , Judaism , an ither monotheistic releegions .

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