Levant region

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cultural region geographical region historical region

The Levant region is a historical and geographical area in the Eastern Mediterranean encompassing parts of modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, and surrounding territories, known as a crossroads of ancient civilizations and trade routes.

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Observed surface forms (15)

Surface form	Occurrences
Levant	178
Southern Levant	13
southern Levant	3
the Levant	3
Coele-Syria	1
French Levant	1
Levant@en	1
Levantine coast	1
Northern Levant	1
Ottoman Syria	1
Roman province of Syria Palaestina	1
Syria (southwestern parts)	1
al-Sham	1
al-ʿArabiyya ash-Shāmiyya	1
southwestern Syria	1

Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural region ⓘ geographical region ⓘ historical region ⓘ
borders	Mediterranean Sea ⓘ
climate	Mediterranean climate along coast ⓘ semi-arid to arid inland ⓘ
hasEtymology	derived from French word "levant" meaning "rising" (of the sun) ⓘ
hasFeature	coastal plains ⓘ mountain ranges ⓘ rift valley system ⓘ
hasHistoricalName	Levant region self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: al-Sham
hasLanguageFamilyHistorically	Semitic languages ⓘ
hasMajorCity	Aleppo ⓘ Amman ⓘ Beirut ⓘ Damascus ⓘ Haifa ⓘ Jaffa ⓘ Jerusalem ⓘ Tripoli ⓘ surface form: Tripoli (Lebanon)
hasMajorRiver	Jordan River ⓘ Litani River ⓘ Orontes River ⓘ
hasMajorSea	Mediterranean Sea ⓘ
hasModernLanguages	Arabic ⓘ Aramaic (minority) ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ
hasModernReligions	Christianity ⓘ Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ
hasNameInLanguage	Bilad al-Sham@ar ⓘ Levant region self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Levant@en
hasSubregion	Levant region self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Northern Levant Levant region self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Southern Levant
includesTerritoryOf	Israel ⓘ Jordan ⓘ Lebanon ⓘ Palestinian territories ⓘ Syria ⓘ
isCradleOf	Arameans ⓘ surface form: Aramaean states Canaanite cultures ⓘ Phoenician civilization ⓘ ancient Israelite kingdoms ⓘ
isImportantFor	history of Christianity ⓘ history of Islam ⓘ history of Judaism ⓘ
knownAs	Eastern Mediterranean littoral ⓘ
knownFor	being crossroads of ancient civilizations ⓘ long history of urban civilization ⓘ major trade routes between Africa Asia and Europe ⓘ maritime trade in antiquity ⓘ religious and cultural diversity ⓘ
locatedIn	Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
overlapsWith	Cyprus ⓘ northern Iraq ⓘ southern Turkey ⓘ
partOf	Middle East ⓘ
traversedBy	King's Highway (ancient route) ⓘ ancient trade route Via Maris ⓘ
wasPartOf	Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ Achaemenid Empire ⓘ Byzantine Empire ⓘ Crusader states ⓘ Hellenistic kingdoms ⓘ Mamluk Sultanate ⓘ Ottoman Empire ⓘ Roman Empire ⓘ Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ