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Mar 5, 2021 · Map of the Fertile Crescent, a region stretching in a quarter-moon shape from Mesopotamia down through the Levant. The region is bordered by the Persian Gulf and Zagros Mountains to the east, Taurus Mountains to the north, Mediterranean sea to the west, and Syrian Desert to the South. This region is often referred to as the Cradle of Civilization.
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The southern Levant refers to an area encompassed by modern Israel, Jordan, and Palestine. Canaan is the ancient name of this region, and a Canaanite culture was prominent until the Iron Age, when the kingdoms of Israel and Judah dominated. Owing to its proximity to the Mediterranean coast to the west, Egypt to the south, and Syria to the north ...
Jan 5, 2017 · The other states of the area – the Philistine city-states and the kingdoms of Judah, Edom, Moab and Ammon – escaped the fate of Israel by becoming tributary states of Assyria. The Assyrian records show that these kingdoms were sometimes loyal, sometimes disloyal, to their Assyrian overlords.
Geographically, the Levant lies from Egypt to the Eastern Mediterranean shore - Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Greece. This area host three important cities – Izmir, Alexandria and Beirut. In my speech today, I would like to present the Levantine newspapers in Izmir, their culture and their life together as a calendar sheet of history.
During 1550–1400 BCE, the Canaanite city-states became vassals to the New Kingdom of Egypt, which expanded into the Levant under Ahmose I and Thutmose I. Political, commercial and military events towards the end of this period (1450–1350 BCE) were recorded by ambassadors and Canaanite proxy rulers for Egypt in 379 cuneiform tablets known as ...
May 29, 2018 · LEVANTINE. Noun or adjective that defines the non-Muslim populations and cultures of the modern Middle East. The term levantine is French in origin —levantin — and implies a geographic reference to the sun rising —soleil levant — in the east, or levant. The French coined the term because France, in the sixteenth century, was the first ...
