Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text

The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ancient Villages of Northern Syria' has mentioned 'Middle East' in the following places:
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Criterion (iii): The Ancient Villages of Northern Syria and their relict landscapes provide exceptional testimony to the lifestyles and cultural traditions of the rural civilisations that developed in the Middle East, in the context of a Mediterranean climate in mid-altitude limestone mountains from the 1st to the 7th centuries.