Antedating of "Near East"

[Fred Shapiro]

near East (OED 1894)

1856 _Fraser's Magazine_ Nov. 574 (Periodicals Archive Online)  The Far
East -- in contradistinction to the Near East -- for the integrity of
which we went to war with Russia -- contains a population of six hundred
millions of people, or perhaps more.

Fred Shapiro


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