Curated category
Historical regions of Asia
- GalileeGalilee is a region in northern Israel and southern Lebanon that has been inhabited, fought over, and renamed for more than three thousand years.
- LevantThe Levant is a region whose name means "rising." It comes from the Italian word levante, pointing to the place where the sun rises in the east.
- TibetTibet sits higher than anywhere else on Earth, with an average elevation of 4,380 meters above sea level. Mount Everest, which marks its border with Nepal…
- OrientOrient is a word that has traveled farther than almost any traveler who ever used it. At its root, it comes from the Latin oriens, meaning "rising," borrowed…
- East IndiesA 1606 map of the East Indies shows a vast expanse of islands and coastlines stretching from India to New Guinea. Portuguese explorers coined the term Indies…
- ChamparanChamparan is a region in the northwestern corner of Bihar, India, that most of the world knew nothing about until 1917, when a lawyer from South Africa…
- KashmirKashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent, and for more than six decades it has been described as one of the most…
- Syria PalaestinaSyria Palaestina was a Roman province born from an act of political erasure. In the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132-136 AD, the Roman authorities…
- ColchisColchis, the ancient Georgian polity that Greek poets called a land of gold, sits at the eastern edge of the Black Sea in what is now western Georgia.
- Palestine (region)Palestine sits at the meeting point of three continents, wedged between Egypt, Syria, and Arabia, and for at least five thousand years every empire that…