Geographical divisions outside Turkey (cf. Table 2, p. 13)

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TABLE 2: DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE TURKEY

areas numbered as on Map 3

North Europe: most of Scandinavia eastwards to the Urals (except S. Sweden and extreme SW. Norway)

West Europe: Britain, most of France, Pyrenees, N. Spain and Portugal, Denmark and extreme SW. Norway

South Europe: Iberian peninsula (excluding the part in W. Europe), S. France, Italy (excluding the Alps), Balkans, and the Mediterranean islands except Cyprus

Balkans: used mainly in the sense of Hayek (Prodr. Fl. Balc.) - Yugoslavia S. of the Danube, Greece, Bulgaria, Dobrudja, Albania, Istria, Greece & Aegean

Central Europe: from the Alps to the Baltic, including S. Sweden, most of Germany, part of France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Austria, N. Italy, Jugoslavia N. of the Danube, Hungary, Romania (except Dobrudja)

North Africa: Morocco to the Suez Canal; also Macaronesia

North-West Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia; also Macaronesia

Cyrenaica (13)

Mediterranean Area: S. Europe, N. Africa, W. Syria

Central Russia: between a line from the Gulf of Finland to Sverdlovsk (Urals) and S. Russia (q.v.)

South Russia: a steppe belt, including the Black Sea, Lower Don & Lower Volga regions of Flora URSS, and the northern (i.e. non-mountainous) Crimea

Siberia: USSR N. of Transcaspia (q.v.) and E. of the Urals

Caucasia

Caucasus: the main mountain range (Bolshoy Kavkaz), including Abkhazya

Transcaucasia: the area S. of the main range

Georgia (1)

Soviet Azerbaijan (excluding the Russian Talysh) (2)

Soviet Armenia (including Nakhichevan) (3)

Crimea: used for the S. (mountain area) only (14)

Iran

N. Iran: Elburz and the whole of the Talysh (4)

NW. Iran: Iranian Azerbaijan (5)

W. Iran: mountains west of a line from Lake Rezaiyeh to Siraz

C. Iran

Khorassan: NE. Iran, including the whole of the Kopet Dagh

S.Iran

N. Iraq: mountain Kurdistan (6)

W. Syria

Latakia (7)

Lebanon (the mountain only) (8)

Anti-Lebanon (9)

Palestine: Israel and the W. part of Jordan (10)

Syrian Desert: including parts of Syria, Iraq & Jordan

Sinai (11)

Arabia

Cyprus (12)

Afghanistan

Central Asia

Transcaspia: steppe and desert region, including the Aralo-Caspian, Kyzyl Kum & Kara Kum regions of the Flora urss, but excluding Kopet Dagh

Turkestan: mountain region, including the Russian Tien-Shan & Pamir-Alai

Sinkiang

Mongolia

W. Pakistan


The following term is also used:

SW. Asia: [Anatolia], Caucasia, W. Syria, N. Iraq, Cyprus, Syrian Desert, Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, W. Pakistan, Sinai