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previous chapter | German edition | next chapter | contents Mitri Raheb Map 5 The Ottoman Empire from 1881 until 1922. © PETER PALM, BERLIN. A Preliminary Remark on the Term “Middle East”1 The term “Middle East” was coined in the 19th Century and thus represents an Euro-centric view of the world. Only by looking at the region from Europe does one realize that it is east/southeast. To distinguish it from the Far East, Europeans first called it the Near East and later the Middle East. The region’s name, consequently, is closely r…