Every-Name Index. Given Name Equivalents in French-Dutch-English. as used in translating the French names in Burton (1936, 1937). In the 1930s, Paul Gibson Burton wrote a series of six papers on the genealogy of Cornelis MELYN [MELIJN] that are the major reference for genealogists researching the MELYN surname in America.
The Near East is the eastern Mediterranean region once dominated by the Ottoman Empire. Middle Eastâthe newest of the three termsâoriginally referred to everything between the other two Easts (Mesopotamia to Burma), but it now usually denotes the Near East in addition to Afghanistan, Iran, and the Arabian peninsula.
Lying along important trade routes connecting southern and eastern Asia to Europe and the Middle East, Afghanistan has long been a prize sought by empire builders, and for millennia great armies have attempted to subdue it, leaving traces of their efforts in great monuments now fallen to ruin.