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The Fertile Crescent (Arabic: الهلال الخصيب) is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning modern-day Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, together with northern Kuwait, south-eastern Turkey, and western Iran. Some authors also include Cyprus and northern Egypt.
Fertile Crescent, the region where the first settled agricultural communities of the Middle East and Mediterranean basin are thought to have originated by the early 9th millennium bce. The term was popularized by the American Orientalist James Henry Breasted.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Fruchtbarer Halbmond (englisch Fertile Crescent, arabisch الهلال الخصيب, DMG al-hilāl al-ḫaṣīb) ist die von James H. Breasted 1916 eingeführte Bezeichnung für das Winterregengebiet am nördlichen Rand der Syrischen Wüste, die sich im Norden an die Arabische Halbinsel anschließt.
19. Okt. 2023 · Learn about the history, geography, and culture of the Fertile Crescent, the region where the earliest civilizations emerged. Find out how water scarcity and political conflicts have affected the area in modern times.
20. Dez. 2017 · Learn about the Fertile Crescent, the region of the Middle East where some of the earliest human civilizations emerged. Discover the origins of writing, agriculture, irrigation and the Sumerians, and explore the ancient sites of Mesopotamia.
- Missy Sullivan
The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia and North Africa that gave rise to some of the world's earliest civilizations. Learn how the term was coined by an Egyptologist at UChicago, what Mesopotamia means, and what civilizations lived in the Fertile Crescent. Explore how archaeology and research at the Oriental Institute have shaped our understanding of ancient life.
The Fertile Crescent, often called the "Cradle of Civilization ", is the region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape, from the Persian Gulf, through modern-day southern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and northern Egypt.
