| MOAB | Biblical kingdom in modern-day Jordan |
| EDOM | Ancient kingdom in modern-day Jordan |
| PETRA | Ancient capital of the Nabataean kingdom, in modern-day Jordan; one of the New 7 Wonders of the World (5) |
| ASHANTI | R&B singer named after a onetime kingdom in modern-day Ghana |
| FERTILECRESCENT | Sickle-shaped region in the Middle East including modern-day Jordan and Iraq (7,8) |
| LIEGEDOM | Stay with key Biblical kingdom in allegiance |
| JUDAH | Biblical kingdom in half of Judges and climaxes of Joshua and Ruth (5) |
| NABATAEAN | Member of an Arabian people who lived around Petra, in present-day Jordan, in the Hellenistic and Roman periods (9) |
| YEMEN | Probable modern-day locale of the biblical kingdom of Sheba |
| SHEBA | Kingdom mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, believed to be in modern-day Yemen (5) |
| EARLDOM | Dignity of a couple of opposing sides in Biblical kingdom |
| MOBHANDED | Biblical kingdom with no area given in Numbers |
| ASANTE | One of the spellings of an empire and region in modern-day Ghana that was annexed by Britain in 1902 |
| ORVIETO | City in modern-day Umbria, annexed by Rome in the 3rd Century BCE (7) |
| CHAGALL | Artist born in modern-day Belarus who resided in France for much of his life |
| SUMER | Ancient region of SW Asia that later became Babylonia, located in the southernmost part of Mesopotamia in modern-day Iraq (5) |
| SMYRNA | City from classical antiquity situated in modern-day Izmir in Turkey (6) |
| HITTITE | Member of an ancient people of Anatolia who settled in modern-day Turkey in the early second millennium BC (7) |
| TROY | Ancient city in modern-day Hisarlik, Turkey, whose ruins were made a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1998 (4) |
| EUROFOREURO | How boxers are compared, in modern-day Ireland? |
