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	Countries by Continent :: Destination Asia - Asian and Middle East Countries
		Asia is the largest continent in the world in both, area and population.
		Seven out of ten of the most populated countries are in Asia (2004).
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	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/asia.htm (172 words)

	Asia, Mysia
		In 281 B.C. when Lysimachus, who had appropriated Western Asia Minor as a successor of Alexander the Great, was defeated by Seleucus of Syria, Philataerus whom he had appointed to direct his fortress perched on the rocky terrain over the Caicus Valley seized his chance to secure the fortress for himself.
		Pergamum was granted its freedom of sorts by the governor of Asia, Publius Servilius Isauricus, who had taken steps in the senate to protect the provinces from excessive advantage by Roman capitalists.
		Pergamum passed from a kingdom to the Roman province of Mysia then to the province of Asia before it was deemed a democracy under the hegemony of the Roman Empire, but its culture never failed to thrive, surviving every upheaval.
	www.usd.edu /~clehmann/pir/asiamysi.htm (1081 words)

	Conservation and Wise Use of Wetlands in Western Asia
		Western Asia, comprising the Middle East and Central Asia, holds parts of the world’s main arid zone.
		Western Asia embodies many types of fragile ecosystems including deserts, semi-arid lands, mountains and wetlands.
		It would be to the benefit of all the countries of Western Asia to join the Ramsar Convention, thereby completing the network of international wetlands in this region.
	www.ramsar.org /about/about_western_asia.htm (2457 words)

	Newsroom: World Summit on the Information Society
		The Conference is organized by ESCWA (Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia) in cooperation with the Cairo Office of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and the ITU (International Telecommunication Union).
		Mohammed Mrayati, ESCWA Regional Advisor on Science and Technology, presented a paper on Western Asia Information Society in which he recommended that ESCWA member countries debate their different perspectives on the issue of information society in order to reach a common understanding.
		The Head of the ITU Arab Regional Office, Ibrahim Qadi, said that the information revolution of this century is equivalent in importance to the agricultural revolution, which transformed the world 100 centuries ago and the industrial revolution three centuries ago.
	www.itu.int /wsis/newsroom/press_releases/un/2003/western_asia_4feb.html (1192 words)

	Lecture 2: Ancient Western Asia and the Civilization of Mesopotamia
		Between 9000 B.C. and the beginning of the Christian era, western civilization came into being in Egypt and in what historians call Ancient Western Asia (modern-day Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, southwestern Russia, Iraq and Iran).
		According to our previous definitions, these societies of Egypt and Ancient Western Asia correspond to what we would call civilization (see Lecture 1).
		Constructed of wood and bronze and used for transport as well as for warfare, the chariot is symbolic of the culture of early river civilizations, the first civilizations in Ancient Western Asia.
	www.historyguide.org /ancient/lecture2b.html (3905 words)

	Western Asia Alcon Locations, Including the Middle East \| Alcon
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	www.alcon.com /alcon-locations/western-asia-middle-east.asp (150 words)

	WSIS - Second Western Asia Preparatory Conference
		The Second Regional Preparatory Conference for WSIS, focusing on partnership for building the Arab information society, is part of the preparatory process for this second phase of the WSIS.
		While the Western Asia Preparatory Conference for WSIS, held in Beirut (February 2003), produced the Beirut Declaration, providing regional input to the Geneva DoP and PoA, this Conference should produce a Regional Plan of Action, taking into account regional needs for building a sustainable Arab information society.
		The Conference is jointly organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Cairo Office and the Syrian Ministry of Communications and Technology (MCT).
	www.escwa.org.lb /wsis/conference2/main.html (1161 words)

	ENB @ UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Egypt, October 2003
		ENB @ UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Egypt, October 2003
		On Tuesday, 21 October, delegates to the West Asia Regional Implementation Meeting in preparation for CSD-12 held a brief closing Plenary to adopt the meeting’s report.
		A consolidated report on follow-up activities in the field of water, sanitation and human settlements, including comments made during the meeting, will be submitted to CSD-12 as the input from the Arab region.
	www.iisd.ca /csd/rim/escwa (0 words)

	Asia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Asia is traditionally defined as part of the landmass of Africa-Eurasia – with the western portion of the latter occupied by Europe – lying east of the Suez Canal, east of the Ural Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian and Black Seas.
		The boundary between Asia and Europe is commonly considered to run through the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, the Black Sea, the Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea, the Ural River to its source, and the Ural Mountains to the Kara Sea near Kara, Russia.
		Asia is the largest continent in the world by a considerable margin, and it is rich in natural resources, such as petroleum and iron.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Asia (3062 words)

	Asia - LoveToKnow 1911
		ASIA, the name of one of the great continents into which the earth's surface is divided, embracing the north-eastern portion of the great mass of land which constitutes what is generally known as the Old World, of which Europe forms the northwestern and Africa the south-western region.
		Asia is divided laterally along the parallel of 40° north by a depression which, beginning on the east of the desert of Gobi, extends westwards through Mongolia to Chinese Turkestan.
		The western part of the range, which received the name of Paropamisus Mons from the ancients, diminishes in height west of the 65th meridian and constitutes the northern face of the Afghan and Persian plateau, rising abruptly from the plains of the Turkoman desert, which lies between the Oxus and the Caspian.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Asia (15673 words)

	Asia
		Asia is the largest of the continents, having a geographic area of about 17,000,000 square miles, or about one-third of the whole of the dry land.
		On the north, Asia is bounded by the Arctic Ocean; on the east, by the Pacific Ocean; on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the West by Europe, the Black Sea, the Greek Archipelago, the Mediterranean, and the Red Sea.
		The Oriental Churches of Western Asia (Turkey and Persia), however, are for us of particular interest, as they represent old and venerable national Churches, having their own hierarchy, rites, liturgical languages and usages, and ecclesiastical discipline, which had, as early as the fifth century, separated themselves from the church of Rome.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/asia.html (4192 words)

	South Asia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		South Asia, also known as the Indian Subcontinent, is a southern geopolitical region of the Asian continent comprising territories on and in proximity to the Indian subcontinent.
		It is surrounded by (from west to east) Western Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, and Southeastern Asia.
		Tibet is also considered to be part of Southern Asia but due to not being recognized as a sovereign nation, it is not included in the UN subregion of Southern Asia.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/South_Asia (520 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Asia Minor
		Asia Minor, in which both the senate and the emperor exercised, in theory at least, a co-ordinate jurisdiction until the end of the third century, was too contented and loyal to call for other troops than were necessary for protection from the foreign enemy, or to repress brigandage.
		Asia Minor by a certain number of catalogues or lists of the patriarchates with their metropolitan and autocephalous archbishops, also of the suffragans of the metropolitans, whicn are extant under the Latin name of "Notitiæ Episcopatuum" (ed.
		Asia Minor, in some secluded valleys, are found yet a few Nestorians, descendants of those Syrian Christians who fled in remote times to these fastnesses either to avoid the oppression of their Moslem masters in Mesopotamia or before the encroachments of nomad tribes.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01782a.htm (10657 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Asia
		Asia is bounded by the Arctic Ocean; on the east, by the Pacific Ocean; on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the West by Europe, the Black Sea, the Greek Archipelago, the Mediterranean, and the Red Sea.
		Asia, embracing the Hindus, the Iranians, the Medo-Persians, the Armenians, the Caucasians, and the inhabitants of Asia Minor.
		Asia is the cradle and the primitive home of Christianity; for it was in its extreme south-western borders, i.e., in Palestine, the home of the Chosen People, that the Founder of Christianity chose to appear, to live, and to preach the New Dispensation.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01777b.htm (4892 words)

	Chinese medication or Western? - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		Western medicine also say Chinese medicine is really good because of this.
		yea that is true....some western medicines are based on chinese herbal remedies except that the western medicine is the extract of the only chemical in the herb that cures...so really if you go herbal you get the curing power with whatever extra ingredients that are in the herbs.
		i trust the western stuff better because they are proven to work quickly and effectively whereas the chinese takes a span of around 2-3 days for it to take effect.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=1850 (571 words)

	Asia at AllExperts
		Asia is traditionally defined as part of the landmass of Africa-Eurasia â" with the western portion of the latter occupied by Europe â"lying east of the Suez Canal, east of the Ural Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian and Black Seas.
		The boundary between Asia and Europe is commonly believed to run through the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, the Black Sea, the Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea, the Ural River to its source, and the Ural Mountains to the Kara Sea near Kara, Russia.
		In the former case, Europe is a western peninsula of Eurasia or the Africa-Eurasia landmass.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/as/asia.htm (3418 words)

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		Chiefly in the eastern and northern hemispheres, Asia is traditionally defined as part of the landmass of Africa-Eurasia – with the western portion of the latter occupied by Europe – lying east of the Suez Canal, east of the Ural Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian and Black Seas.
		The demarcation between Asia and Africa (to the southwest) is the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea.
		In the far northeast of Asia, Siberia is separated from North America by the Bering Strait.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Asia (3364 words)

	Asia Food Features
		In the western areas of Asia, the representative food can be seen as bread, whereas in the eastern regions of the continent, rice would occupy this position.
		First, speaking broadly, in western India and farther west, wheat is an important foodstuff, and it is all ground to flour and baked or otherwise cooked.
		In Mongolia in northern Asia, Central Asia, and from India westward, milk from a variety of domestic livestock is made into yoghurt, butter, cheese and other dairy foods, which serve as an important source of nourishment.
	www.asiafood.org /features_dietary_culture2.cfm (733 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news and business from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam
		Yet China, India and Thailand have all willingly risked Western philippics to gain access to Myanmar's oil and gas sources, which some industry analysts estimate are second in volume only to Indonesia in the region.
		Western sanctions' failure to achieve economic collapse and political change in Myanmar significantly underscores both the United States' and Europe's waning and China's and India's growing economic influence in the region.
		Some Western diplomats believe that fear of a possible US invasion was one big reason Myanmar's ruling junta last year abruptly moved the national capital from the coastal city of Yangon to the inland, mountainous redoubt of Naypyidaw.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/HK03Ae02.html (1125 words)

	no such thing as western - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		But if you say "westernized" all the time, people start to believe there is a shared culture by the white-people country.
		Italian food is italian, not western, and other countries have their own cuisine.
		I understand your main idea that "Western" is often thought of to indicate a mainly white country which allows other white countries to benefit just by having Western (even though it does not always necessarily mean "white") status, but the "Americanized" part doesn't exactly seem to fit everywhere.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=36748 (740 words)

	High Asia Tours: Western and Central Bhutan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Western Bhutan is comprised of the Haa Valley at 8860ft.
		Western Bhutan is known for its stunning scenery with rice paddies and orchards cascading down magnificent mountains, the pristine rivers that flow through the main towns of Paro, Thimphu and Punakha, and unique two-story houses with brightly painted window designs.
		Upon arrival at the airport, you will be received by High Asia Tours representative and escorted to your hotel.
	www.highasiatours.com /bhutan/itineraries/western_central.php (960 words)

	Course Unit Information, Institute of Archaeology, UCL
		To provide an introduction to the archaeology and early history of Western Asia, with emphasis on the civilizations of Mesopotamia, the Levant, Anatolia, and Persia.
		To consider major issues in the development of human society in Western Asia, including the origins and evolution of sedentism, agriculture, complex societies, urbanism, literacy, and empires.
		Major issues including the development of interest in Western Asia and the legacy of Western Asia are also included.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /archaeology/ug/components/1009-B232civwasia.htm (291 words)

	Obesity in Asia mirrors western increase \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		The threat posed by obesity to Asia's economic and social stability is one of the topics Mr Gill, Mr Zimmet and other experts are debating at a conference this week in Sydney.
		Rapid economic development and the shift from an active, agricultural lifestyle to a sedentary, urban lifestyle are the main factors to blame for Asia's burgeoning weight problem, Mr Zimmet and Mr Gill said.
		As their economies had grown, many Asian countries that were once agriculturally self-sufficient had begun importing high-fat, high-calorie foods that were never a major part of their traditional diets.
	www.guardian.co.uk /medicine/story/0,,1866023,00.html (641 words)

	West Asian Environment - History for Kids!
		West Asia is a dry place, where access to water is always a big problem and there are a lot of fights over water.
		On the other side of Afghanistan is China, and for the most part the people of West Asia have not been able to fight their way into China, but have always left Afghanistan as the border between the two.
		The story of the Garden of Eden may be a memory of this happening (which would have been very hard on the hunter-gatherers living in West Asia at this time, and may have led to the first experiments with farming).
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/westasia/environment/index.htm (631 words)

	Explore the world of Canto-Western cuisine - Asia Travel - MSNBC.com
		For decades, waiters have served up dishes best described as Western fare with Chinese flair: borscht spiked with soy sauce, wok-fried spaghetti with meat sauce, and a watery cream of corn soup with strips of pink ham floating in it.
		They were applying their own flavors and culture to the Western dishes they were exposed to," he said.
		And that leaves the few remaining soy sauce Western restaurants trying to capitalize on their nostalgic appeal.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/16440507 (516 words)

	Showler: The Desert Locust in Africa and Western Asia
		Locust scourges are referred to in the Christian Bible and the Islamic Koran, and in some places, locust plagues have been held responsible for epidemics of human pathogens, such as cholera (this is because of the massive quantities of decomposing locust cadavers that would accumulate on beaches after swarms flew out to sea and drowned).
		Normally, the desert locust is a solitary insect that occurs in desert and scrub regions of northern Africa, the Sahel (region including the countries of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger), the Arabian Peninsula (e.g., Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman), and parts of Asia to western India (Steedman 1988).
		Although the outbreak in southern and central Mauritania was declining by November, it persisted until the early summer of 1995 (the cross-regional outbreak, however, ceased in 1994), and populations were suspected to have bred in Western Sahara.
	ipmworld.umn.edu /chapters/showler.htm (7610 words)

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