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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.
In the southern Levant, a newly established foederati were crystalizing, the Ghassanid Arabs. The Ghassanids became a client state of the Byzantines, and served as a bulwark against Sassanid incursions and raids by nomads.
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.
Mar 28, 2024 · Last Updated: Mar 28, 2024 • Article History. Levant. Levant, (from the French lever, “to rise,” as in sunrise, meaning the east), historically, the region along the eastern Mediterranean shores, roughly corresponding to modern-day Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and certain adjacent areas.
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While cultural-historical narratives continue to dominate much of the literature on the archaeology of the southern Levant, an increasing number of interdisciplinary studies and theoretically informed approaches have gradually introduced southern Levantine archaeology—a deeply politicized topic—into global archaeological discussions. With a foreword by Thomas Levy, the editor of The ...
From a Mediterranean perspective, the southern Levant is the precocious urbanizer, passing the torch to the northern Levant in the mid-third millennium. The close chronological fit between sociopolitical developments in the Levant and the trajectory of Egyptian involvement in Asia can hardly be accidental; Egypt should always be kept in view as ...
