Original: British archaeologist D.G. Hogarth published The Nearer East in 1902 , which helped to define the term and its extent , including the Balkan Peninsula ( Albania , Montenegro , southern Serbia , Bulgaria and Greece ) , Egypt , Anatolia , Armenia the entire Arabian Peninsula , and western parts of Iran .
Simplified: British archaeologist D.G. Hogarth published The Nearer East in 1902 , which helped to define the term and its extent , including Albania , Montenegro , southern Serbia and Bulgaria , Greece , Egypt , all the Ottoman lands , the entire Arabian peninsula , and western parts of Iran .