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unusual facts about Western Asia



April 1986 lunar eclipse

It is seen rising over eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and western North America and South America, the eclipse is also seen setting over the whole of Europe, Africa and Western Asia.

Cardamine pratensis

Cardamine pratensis (cuckoo flower or lady's smock), is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native throughout most of Europe and Western Asia.

Levant

The term is also occasionally employed to refer to modern events, peoples, states or parts of states in the same region, namely Cyprus, Iraq, Israel, Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria (compare with Near East, Middle East, Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia).

Polygonum cognatum

Irano-Turanian Region or Iran-Turan Plant Geography Region element, grows between 760–5600 m on rocky and drier slopes; distribution: Central to Western Asia, Turkey, Caucasia (Georgia), Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Tragopogon dubius

Tragopogon dubius (western salsify, western goat's-beard, wild oysterplant, yellow salsify, yellow goat's beard, goat's beard, goatsbeard, common salsify, salsify) is a species of Salsify native to southern and central Europe and western Asia and found as far north and west as northern France.


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Aethusa cynapium

Fool's parsley, Aethusa cynapium (also known as fool's cicely or poison parsley), is an annual (rarely biennial) herb in the plant family Apiaceae, native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa.

Ahmed Sultan Bin Sulayem

In June 2012, Bin Sulayem received UN accreditation to represent Western Asia on behalf of CIBJO, the international jewellery confederation of national trade organisations.

Cirsium vulgare

Cirsium vulgare (Spear Thistle) is a species of the genus Cirsium, native throughout most of Europe (north to 66°N, locally 68°N), western Asia (east to the Yenisei Valley), and northwestern Africa (Atlas Mountains).

Grey willow

Salix cinerea, a species of willow native to Europe and western Asia, also occasionally called Grey Sallow

Gudea

Materials for his buildings and statues were brought from all parts of western Asia: cedar wood from the Amanus mountains, quarried stones from Lebanon, copper from northern Arabia, gold and precious stones from the desert between Canaan and Egypt, diorite from Magan (Oman), and timber from Dilmun (Bahrain).

H. maculatum

Hypericum maculatum, the imperforate St John's-wort, a plant species native to Europe and Western Asia

Hypsamasia

Hypsamasia seni was named in reference to its high crowned cheek teeth (Greek: hypsos, "height"), the type locality (the Roman town and province Amasya), and after Dr Sevket Sen for his important contribution to the paleontology and geology of western Asia.

Lamium amplexicaule

Lamium amplexicaule, commonly known as henbit deadnettle or greater henbit, is a species of Lamium native to Europe, western Asia and northern Africa.

Ottoman Greeks

They were concentrated in what is today modern Greece and Greek Macedonia, western Asia Minor (especially in and around Smyrni), central Anatolia (espacially Cappadocia), northeastern Anatolia (especially in Erzurum vilayet, in and around Trebizond and in the Pontic Alps (roughly corresponding to the medieval Greek kingdom of Pontus, which was situated along the southeastern shores of the Black Sea and the highlands of the interior).

P. ovata

Plantago ovata (also Psyllium ovata), the desert indianwheat, a medicinal plant species native to Western Asia and Southern Asia

P. syriacus

Pelobates syriacus, the eastern spadefoot or Syrian spadefoot, a toad species native to Eastern Europe and Western Asia

Populus sect. Aigeiros

Commonly known as cottonwoods, the species are native to North America, Aigeiros, and western Asia.

Tourkia

Turkey, a country in southeastern Europe and western Asia

V. officinalis

Veronica officinalis, a plant species native to Europe and western Asia