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.
MIDDLE EAST. The Middle East is that part of Western Asia extending from the eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey and Syria, through the desert to Iraq and Arabia, and to the East through Iran to the Caspian, the Caucasus, and the Black Sea. Into Africa, it includes Egypt, and, by some accounts, Arab North Africa.