WesternAsia

1. Synonym ofWest Asia
   • 1795, Sir William Ouseley,Persian Miscellanies, page106:

     [...] and on the banks of another, was seated the "Golden Babylon", once the proud mistress of the eastern world, being the capital of the Assyrian monarchy, which comprehended Syria, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, Persia; in short, except India, all the great nations ofwestern Asia.

• Western Asian