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.

Levant is derived from the French verb lever meaning " to rise " indicating that part of the world where the sun rises.

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 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.

" The Levant thus constitutes a narrow corridor whose geographical setting made it a constant area of contention between more powerful entities ".

The Levant is the geographical region bordering the Mediterranean, roughly between Egypt and Anatolia ( modern Turkey ).

The term Levant, which first appeared in English in 1497, originally meant the East in general or " Mediterranean lands east of Italy ".

Palestina is the Latin short-form for the Roman term " Syria Palaestina ", which was implemented for the southern Levant during the classic period and the British administration period of the 20th century.

Originally the term referred to Egypt, the Levant, and adjoining areas.

The latter term is generally found in the Maghreb, while the former is typical of usage in the Mashriq ( broadly defined, including Egypt, Sudan, Levant, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula ).

The foregoing names can be perceived as having political overtones, meaning that the more neutral, geographically based term the southern Levant has become popular with archaeologists who wish to refer to this area without prejudice or political orientation.

The term northern Levant can be used to refer to Lebanon, the Syrian littoral and portions of the Mediterranean coast of Turkey in the province of Hatay.

The term Ghassān refers to the kingdom of the Ghassanids, an ancient Arab Christian kingdom in the Levant.

The term " Palestinian " used to refer to Jews in Europe who were regarded as an alien presence, usually as reference to their ancestral origins in the Levant.

The term denotes the restoration of the Arab province during the Middle Ages, encompassing the Eastern Mediterranean Sea or the Levant and Western Mesopotamia at the peak glory of the Arab Muslim civilization.

In the Roman era, the term Syria is used to comprise the entire northern Levant and has an uncertain border to the northeast that Pliny the Elder describes as including, from west to east, Commagene, Sophene, and Adiabene, " formerly known as Assyria ".

Sin does not refer to sinfulness, but is an untranslated word that would translate as the moon ; biblical scholars suspect that the name Sin here refers to the semitic moon-deity Sin, who was worshipped widely around the entire periphery of pre-Islamic Arabia, the Levant, and Mesopotamia.

The word pit ' dah is thought by scholars to be connected with the Assyrian word hipindu, which refers to something that flashed ( presumably meaning shimmered ), and thus the jewel in question would fit the description of Chrysolite, a translucent greenish yellow mineral, common throughout the Levant, and particularly found on a particular island in the Red Sea, under the control of the Egyptian Pharaoh.

The Ancient Near East refers to early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia ( modern Iraq and Syria ), Persia ( modern Iran ), Anatolia ( modern Turkey ), the Levant ( modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan ), and Ancient Egypt, from the rise of Sumer in the 4th millennium BC until the region's conquest by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE, or covering both the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in the region.

In the most common historical sense, Syria refers to the entire northern Levant, including Alexandretta and the ancient city of Antioch, ( the pre-Islamic capital of Syria ), or in an extended sense the entire Levant as far south as Egypt, but not including Mesopotamia.

As Jerusalem changed hands and European forces moved back and forth, in-roads to the Levant were reestablished and the cultures mixed on a large scale for the first time in centuries.

The invasion effectively destroyed the Ayyubid Dynasty, theretofore powerful ruler of large parts of the Levant, Egypt, and Arabia.

The range forms a natural barrier in the landscape, just as the Jezreel Valley forms a natural passageway, and consequently the mountain range and the valley have had a large impact on migration and invasions through the Levant over time.

As a large province, the territory of Syria-Palaestina comprised the Levant and the western part of Mesopotamia.

His cradle was large, as he claimed the Mediterranean race had occupied the Levant, Egypt and western Europe, including the British isles.

Formerly a merchant in Livorno, Italy, working for the Levant Company in Constantinople and scion of a well-connected English merchant family, Levett took up a large grant in Florida, which he later abandoned in favor of Georgia, where he was one of the first growers of Sea Island cotton.

The valley formed an easier route through the Levant than crossing the mountains on either side, and so saw a large amount of traffic, and was the site of many historic battles ; the earliest battle for which, the Battle of Megiddo, has a surviving detailed account to prove that it was fought in the valley.

The CBRL currently sponsors a large number of research projects in the Levant, including archaeological excavation, survey and publication.

Some of the major projects include work on the Palaeolithic in Lebanon ; the beginnings of farming in southern Jordan ; large regional multi-period archaeological and environmental surveys in Syria and Cyprus ( combining traditional techniques with cutting edge use of satellite imagery and computerised recording ); architectural surveys throughout the Levant, but perhaps especially in Jerusalem and the West Bank ; and anthropological research on modern societies.

They conducted a large business with the Levant, East and West Indies, Canary Islands, and Brazil, and above all with the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal.

Over recorded history, there have been many names of the Levant, a large area in the Middle East.

In the metalliferous mines of Cornwall, some of the worst accidents were at East Wheal Rose in 1846, where 39 workers were killed by a sudden flood ; at Levant mine in 1919, where 31 were killed and many injured in a failure of the man engine ; 12 killed at Wheal Agar in 1883 when a cage fell down a shaft ; and seven killed at Dolcoath mine in 1893 when a large stull collapsed.

They conducted a large business with the Levant, East and West Indies, Canary Islands, and Brazil, and above all with the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal.

Just before the capture of Jerusalem, the British War Office had been very worried about Allenby's extended advance and warned of a possible retirement back to Gaza and Beersheba if the war on the Western Front dictated the transfer of large numbers of troops from the Levant.