The Levant

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean. In its widest historical sense, the Levant included all of the Eastern Mediterranean with its islands, that is, it included all of the countries along the eastern Mediterranean Shores, extending from Greece to Cyrenaica.

The Levant term refers to: Cyprus, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey.

 

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