Western Asia

The celebrated current of the Euphrates, was divided, according to the Arabian geographer, whom Bochart follows, into five channels or branches, one of which led to Cufa in Chaldea; and on the banks of another, was ſeated the “Golden Babylon” once the proud miſtreſs of the eaſtern world, being the capital of the Aſſyrian monarchy, which comprehended Syria, Meſopotamia, Chaldea, Perſia; in short, except India, all the great nations of weſtern Aſia.

1795, William Ouseley, Persian Miscellanies: An Essay to Facilitate the Reading of Persian Manuscripts, London, pages 105–106

Other geographers have divided Asia into five districts, the first, Western Asia, containing Persia, the Peninsula of Arabia, the countries under the actual or nominal dominion of Turkey, which comprehend Mesopotamia, part of Armenia, Syria, and Palestine; and Palestine; Asia Minor, surrounded on the north, south, and west by the Mediterranean and the Black Seas, and the mountainous regions of Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian; the second, Northern Asia, […]; the third, Eastern Asia, […]; the fourth, Southern Asia, […]; and the fifth, Central Asia, […].

1850, John P. Lawson, The Bible Cyclopedia, volume 1, page 115

Whether the first Aryan hearths were kindled on the Bactrian plains, in the valleys of the Hindu-Kush or of the Caucasus, or on the steppes of Scythia, the attention of the European student is still directed by the oldest historic records chiefly to Egypt and Western Asia.

1885, Élisée Reclus, edited by A. H. Keane, The Earth and Its Inhabitants, volume 4, New York, page 1

For nearly a thousand years from the formation of the great Assyrian empire to the death of Darius Codomannus, Western Asia, from the Mediterranean to Affghanistan, or even to India, had been united under one head, had acknowledged one sovereign.

1889, George Rawlinson, The Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, page 17