There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

Eastern Anatolia, along side Mesopotamia and the Levant, is also a heart region for the Neolithic revolution, one of the earliest areas in which humans domesticated plants and animals.

Greek cuisine () is a Mediterranean cuisine, sharing characteristics with the cuisines of Italy, the Balkans, Turkey, and the Levant.

The Levant is a geographical term that refers to a large area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and the Zagros Mountains in the east.

The Sinai Peninsula is sometimes included, though it is more considered an intermediate, peripheral or marginal area forming a land bridge between the Levant and northern Egypt.

The Southern Levant is the southern portion of the geographical region bordering the Mediterranean between Egypt and Mesopotamia ( the Levant ).

The coastal plain of the southern Levant, broad in the south and narrowing to the north, is backed in its southernmost portion by a zone of foothills, the Shephelah ; like the plain this narrows as it goes northwards, ending in the promontory of Mount Carmel.

Beyond the plateau is the Syrian desert, separating the Levant from Mesopotamia.

Following the Gutian period, there is a brief Sumerian renaissance in the 21st century, cut short in the 20th century BC by Amorite invasions, a Semitic people from the north east Levant who founded Babylon as an independent state in 1894 BC.

It is emerging as the " business capital of the Levant " and " the next Beirut ".

The Turks were the common enemy for everyone, as they were only very recent arrivals in the Levant, and although they had imposed their rule prior to the arrival of the crusaders, it is unlikely that they were thoroughly Islamicized as Prawer and others believed.

The department is divided into three geographic areas: the Levant, Mesopotamia ( Iraq ), and Persia ( Iran ).

Later in 1926, the Lebanese First Sharp Shooters Unit was created out of the Special Troops of the Levant ; it is considered to be a direct precursor to the Lebanese Armed Forces ( LAF ).

The Levant (, ) or ) is a geographic and cultural term referring to the region of the " eastern Mediterranean littoral between Anatolia and Egypt ".

Today " Levant " is typically used by archaeologists and historians with reference to the prehistory and the ancient and medieval history of the region, as when discussing the Crusades.

Archaeologists seeking a neutral orientation that is neither biblical nor national have utilized terms such as Syro-Palestinian archaeology and archaeology of the southern Levant.

The largest religious and ethnic group in the Levant is Sunni Muslim Arabs, but there are also many other groups.

It was first used to refer to post-Holocene but pre-agricultural material in northwest Europe about 10, 000 to 5000 BCE but is also applied to material from the Levant ( about 20, 000 to 9500 BCE ); in Japan the Jōmon period ( about 14, 000 to 400 BCE ) is sometimes called Mesolithic and it is also applied to some cultures from the Indian sub-continent ( 100, 000 to 30, 000 BCE ).

The latest date from a Mesolithic 1 site in the Levant is 12, 150 BCE.

* Eylül is also the name for September in Turkish ; this is derived from the Arabic form Aylūl, used in the Levant ( see Arabic names of calendar months ).

Historically, the word " dirham " is derived from the name of a Greek coin, the Drachma ( δραχμή ); the Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire controlled the Levant and traded with Arabia, circulating the coin there in pre-Islamic times and afterward.

* Sanlúcar's name may have derived from the Arab shaluqa ( شلوقة ), the Arabic name for the Levant wind called sirocco or jaloque.

Rather, it is a feral domestic goat derived from the first stocks of domesticated goats in the Levant and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean around 8000-7500 BC.

According to Oscar Levant, the play's title was derived from a graffito.

The name Anatolia comes from the Greek () meaning the " East " or more literally " sunrise ", comparable to the Latin terms " Levant " or " Orient " ( and words for " east " in other languages ).

In general, the alphabets of the Mediterranean region ( Anatolia, Greece, Italy ) are classified as Phoenician-derived, adapted from around the 8th century BCE, while those of the East ( the Levant, Persia, Central Asia and India ) are considered Aramaic-derived, adapted from around the 6th century BCE from the Imperial Aramaic script of the Achaemenid Empire.

In the Levant, artifacts which may be arrow-shaft straighteners are known from the Natufian culture, ( c. 12, 800 – 10, 300 BP ( before present )) onwards.

This was to lead to both the Assyrians from Mesopotamia and Arameans from the Levant being dubbed Syrians in Greco-Roman culture.

Commerce was the source of Aegina's greatness, and her trade, which appears to have been principally with the Levant, must have suffered seriously from the war with Persia.

In the northern Syrian, eastern Anatolian region of the Levant, Natufian culture at Cayonu and Mureybet developed the first fully agricultural culture with the addition of wild grains, later being supplemented with domesticated sheep and goats, which were probably domesticated first by the Zarzian culture of Northern Iraq and Iran ( which like the Natufian culture may have also developed from Kebaran ).

Nomadic elements fused with PPNB to form the Minhata Culture and Yarmukian Culture which were to spread southwards, beginning the development of the classic mixed farming Mediterranean culture, and from 5600 BC were associated with the Ghassulian culture of the region, the first chalcolithic culture of the Levant.

A series of religiously-motivated military expeditions originally intended to liberate the Levant from Muslims, several Crusader States were founded in the eastern Mediterranean.

The political instability exhibiited in much of the history of the Southern Levant stems from this geopolitical fact.

Between 2. 4 and 0. 8 million years ago, at least four episodes of hominine dispersal from Africa to the Levant are known, each culturally distinct.

The eastern Mediterranean seaboard – the Levant – stretches 400 miles north to south from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert, and 70 to 100 miles east to west between the sea and the Arabian desert.

In return, John promised not to visit England for the next three years, thereby in theory giving Richard adequate time to conduct a successful crusade and return from the Levant without fear of John seizing power.

Her work at Jericho, from 1952 until 1958, made her world famous and established a lasting legacy in the archaeological methodology of the Levant.

After the Vichy forces in the Middle East surrendered in July 1941, volunteers from the Troupes Spéciales du Levant enlisted in the Free French forces and participated in combat in Italy, North Africa, and southern France.

The French Mandates of Syria and Lebanon, from 1920 to 1946, were called the Levant states.

This pressure gradient pushes relatively cool, low-salinity water from the Atlantic across the basin ; it warms and becomes saltier as it travels east, then sinks in the region of the Levant and circulates westward, to spill over the Strait of Gibraltar.

In 1808, two-thirds of the cargo consigned from Malta went to Levant and Egypt.