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Satellite imagery of the Southern Levant. The Southern Levant is a geographical region encompassing the southern half of the Levant. It corresponds approximately to modern-day Israel, Palestine, and Jordan; some definitions also include southern Lebanon, southern Syria and/or the Sinai Peninsula.
v. t. e. The prehistory of the Levant includes the various cultural changes that occurred, as revealed by archaeological evidence, prior to recorded traditions in the area of the Levant. Archaeological evidence suggests that Homo sapiens and other hominid species originated in Africa (see hominid dispersal) and that one of the routes taken to ...
Levant. The Levant ( / ləˈvænt / lə-VANT) is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term Middle East. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is equivalent to Cyprus and a ...
History of the ancient Levant. The Levant is the area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and Mesopotamia in the east. It stretches roughly 400 mi (640 km) north to south, from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert and Hejaz, [1] and east to west ...
Nov 20, 2023 · Canaan: Canaan was the biblical name for the southern Levant, a blanket term for the various cities and tribes who were part of a larger Bronze Age and Iron Age cultural/linguistic family that ...
The Philistines ( Hebrew: פְּלִשְׁתִּים, romanized : Pəlīštīm; LXX: Koinē Greek: Φυλιστιείμ, romanized: Philistieím; Latin: Philistaei) were an ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan during the Iron Age in a confederation of city-states generally referred to as Philistia .
Île du Levant, une des îles d'Hyères, situées en France, en mer Méditerranée ; Levant, ville du Comté de Penobscot, dans l' État du Maine, aux États-Unis ; Levant, région du Moyen-Orient, incluant généralement le Liban, la Syrie, Israël, la Palestine et la Jordanie. Le nom de Levante fut donné à cette.
