Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: What did French academic circles refer to the Ottoman Empire as?, Context: Near East (French: Proche-Orient) is a geographical term that roughly encompasses Western Asia. Despite having varying definitions within different academic circles, the term was originally applied to the maximum extent of the Ottoman Empire. The term has fallen into disuse in English, and has been replaced by the term Middle East.
Output:
Proche-Orient