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- Levant is a term in geography that refers to an area in the Middle East. It includes the historic areas of Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Cyprus, and the Hatay Province (located in modern-day Turkey).
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Levant is a term in geography that refers to an area in the Middle East. It includes the historic areas of Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Cyprus, and the Hatay Province (located in modern-day Turkey ). The Levant is bounded by the Taurus Mountains to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the west, the northern Arabian Desert to the south and ...
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- Politics, Culture, and Religion of The Levant
- Languages of The Levant Region
The word Levant was first used in English in 1497 to refer to the Mediterranean islands east of Italy. It comes from the French term for rising. The term has its origin in the Latin word levare which translates to ‘lift, raise.' The word levant means rising or east in other languages such as Hungarian, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Germanic, or Catalan....
The population of the Levant is estimated to be 44,550,926, most of whom are Arabs as well as Jews, Kurds, Armenians, Turkmens, and Assyrians. Different religions have been embraced in the region throughout history, often depending on the empire in power. Such religions include Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. In the modern day, Islam is the domin...
The primary language spoken by populations in the Levant region is Levantine Arabic or Mediterranean Arabic. Hebrew and Greek are the main languages in Israel and Cyprus. Other languages spoken in the area are Turkish, Armenian, Aramaic, and English/French.
- Joyce Chepkemoi
The Levant is an imprecisely defined region in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east. In the Abrahamic religions, it has been referred to as the Holy Land .
the Levant. : countries that border the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea.
The Levant consists of a stretch of southwestern Asia that forms a natural land bridge between Asia and Africa. Three prominent components define this general area from west-to-east: the Mediterranean, the great Syro-African Rift, and the vast desert expanse to the east.
Definition. Levant is the name applied widely to the eastern Mediterranean coastal lands of Asia Minor and Phoenicia (modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon). In a wider sense, the term can be used to encompass the entire coastline from Greece to Egypt.
The Near East [a] is a transcontinental region around the East Mediterranean encompassing parts of West Asia, the Balkans, and North Africa, including the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, East Thrace and Egypt.
