Your challenge should you choose to accept it is to make the middle east (at least the parts as far east as Mesopotamia) be viewed as part of the European continent.
Europe as a continent is already very hazy in modern circles, being entirely a peninsula built of smaller peninsulas and their respective peninsulas. Adding the Middle East makes the peninsular thing irrational.Your challenge should you choose to accept it is to make the middle east (at least the parts as far east as Mesopotamia) be viewed as part of the European continent.
Your challenge should you choose to accept it is to make the middle east (at least the parts as far east as Mesopotamia) be viewed as part of the European continent.
Your challenge should you choose to accept it is to make the middle east (at least the parts as far east as Mesopotamia) be viewed as part of the European continent.
The problem is that the Middle East has always been the first part of Asia to be defined as such. Ancient Greek maps split the three continents there - Europe begins at Thrace and the Balkans, Africa begins at the Sinai Peninsula, and Asia is everything else - Hence, Anatolia is Asia Minor. In order to change that, you either need a POD very far back, or you need the rest of Asia to be defined as a different continent with a different name than "Asia".
Right. You can't define it as "Europe", but you might be able to include them as "the West".
And Eurovision, too!Israel. Plays in the European football cup OTL.
Israel. Plays in the European football cup OTL. If the Levant is part of a big Jerusalem and Anatolia divided between Armenia and Greece they could be considered European especially if the Jerusamelite are speaking a weird French-Arab Hybrid.