Antedating of "Middle East"

[Fred Shapiro]

middle East (OED 1897)

1876 _Zion's Herald_ 11 May 146 (American Periodical Series)  Those
nations of the middle East, formerly so little known to us, have come to
be best known of any in those primitive ages.

Fred Shapiro



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