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.
The Middle East is a term used to describe a region (note: not a specific geographical location), and as such encompasses portions of the North African continent as well as Western Asia. The term is used much in the same way as one would refer to the general geographical location of Southern Africa, but not a specific country.