West Germany | Asia | West Bengal | West Virginia | West Indies | West End | West Yorkshire | Kanye West | West End theatre | The West Wing | Southeast Asia | Central Asia | West | West Midlands | West Bank | West Point | West Side Story | West Java | West Africa | West Berlin | South Asia | West Sussex | Key West | Mae West | West Coast | West Riding of Yorkshire | West Coast Main Line | Halifax, West Yorkshire | West Bromwich Albion F.C. | West Texas |
These numbers do not include Western Asians such as Turks, Arabs or Iranians, however, they contain certain groups like Afghans or ethnic Russians from Central Asian countries who are not specifically "Asian" by culture.
The organizer let only European players compete in all divisions expect Open, but the registration rule shows some non-European countries like Armenia in West Asia and past Republics of the Soviet Union are able to compete.
1400–1800 CE Pajamas: The original paijama are loose, lightweight trousers fitted with drawstring waistbands and worn in South and West Asia by both sexes.
It is theorized that wheat's ancestors (Triticum monococcum, Aegilops speltoides, and Aegilops tauschii, all diploid grasses) hybridized naturally over millennia somewhere in West Asia, to create natural polyploid hybrids, the best known of which are common wheat and durum wheat.
It breeds from West Asia (Iraq, SW Iran, the Arabian/Persian Gulf) eastwards across South Asia (Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the entire Indian subcontinent up to Kanyakumari and up to 1800m in Kashmir/Nepal), with another sub-species further east in Southeast Asia.
9th millennium BCE: Barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. vulgare) is domesticated in the Fertile Crescent in West Asia.