Anatolia and Middle East are different things; Anatolia is not in the Middle East. Anatolia is the name of the Asian lands of Turkey, i.e. the one called Asia Minor.
The Middle East, including Egypt, the Levant, Iraq, eastern Anatolia, Arabia, and Persia.
It's in eastern Anatolia, in eastern Turkey.
From Iberia and Morocco in the west, across North Africa, most the Middle East and eastern Anatolia, Iran, parts of Central Asia and Pakistan.
The largest peninsula in the Middle East is Arabia and the largest country on that Peninsula is Saudi Arabia. The second largest peninsula in the Middle East is Anatolia and the only country on that Peninsula is Turkey.
The Sahara is located in Africa and not in the Middle East. There are no Middle East countries covered by the Sahara.
It is located in the Middle East, it connects Africa to the Middle East.
Seljuk Turks conquered Anatolia after their success at the Battle of Manzikert in 1078 CE.
Syria is located in the Middle East, in the continent of Asia.
There are actually six sub-regions that make up the Middle East: Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Persia, Arabia, Levant, and Egypt.
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Thailand is not in the middle east, it is in southeast Asia.
The first religion to become widespread across all parts of the upper Middle East (Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and the Levant) was the Persian Zoroastrian religion. Islam was the first religion to dominate every single part of the Middle East including Arabia.