The Levant (/ləˈvænt/ lə-VANT) is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia... 40 KB (4,210 words) - 06:38, 24 April 2024 |
Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906 – August 14, 1972) was an American concert pianist, composer, conductor, author, radio game show panelist, television talk... 22 KB (2,138 words) - 02:50, 3 April 2024 |
The Southern Levant is a geographical region encompassing the southern half of the Levant. It corresponds approximately to modern-day Israel, Palestine... 28 KB (3,655 words) - 14:14, 28 January 2024 |
Islamic State (redirect from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (country)) The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym... 299 KB (24,583 words) - 05:00, 24 April 2024 |
Île du Levant (pronounced [il dy ləvɑ̃]), sometimes referred to as Le Levant, is a French island in the Mediterranean off the coast of the Riviera, near... 15 KB (1,382 words) - 01:55, 23 March 2024 |
Brian Michael Levant (born August 6, 1952) is an American filmmaker. Born in Highland Park, Illinois to a Jewish family, Levant started his career in... 7 KB (317 words) - 04:49, 18 March 2024 |
The prehistory of the Levant includes the various cultural changes that occurred, as revealed by archaeological evidence, prior to recorded traditions... 23 KB (2,592 words) - 08:27, 17 April 2024 |
The Levant is the area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south... 81 KB (9,461 words) - 12:42, 26 April 2024 |
Look up levant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Levant is a region in the eastern Mediterranean, including the Southern Levant. Levant may also... 2 KB (334 words) - 13:27, 3 April 2023 |
Air Headquarters Levant (AHQ Levant) was a command of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) established on 1 December 1941, by renaming the command known as... 5 KB (383 words) - 00:13, 18 December 2021 |
The first USS Levant was a second-class sloop-of-war in the United States Navy. Levant was launched on 28 December 1837 by New York Navy Yard; and commissioned... 10 KB (1,210 words) - 15:35, 7 July 2023 |
The Army of the Levant (French: Armée du Levant) identifies the armed forces of France and then Vichy France which occupied, and were in part recruited... 17 KB (2,125 words) - 16:36, 3 April 2024 |
The Levant sparrowhawk (Accipiter brevipes) is a small bird of prey. It measures 32–38 cm (13–15 in) in length with a wingspan of 65–75 cm (26–30 in).... 10 KB (1,078 words) - 00:33, 22 December 2023 |
Epipalaeolithic Near East (redirect from Epipalaeolithic (Levant)) Levantine Aurignacian (formerly called Antelian) period throughout the Levant. By the end of the Levantine Aurignacian, gradual changes took place in... 23 KB (2,426 words) - 23:44, 3 April 2024 |
Levant Mine and Beam Engine is a National Trust property at Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just, Cornwall, England, UK. Its main attraction is that it has... 17 KB (949 words) - 20:37, 4 February 2024 |
The Muslim conquest of the Levant (Arabic: فَتْحُ الشَّام, romanized: Fath aş-Şâm; lit. "Conquest of Syria"), or Arab conquest of Syria, was a 634–638... 46 KB (6,166 words) - 17:56, 3 April 2024 |
June Gale (redirect from June Levant) was an American actress sometimes credited under her married name as June Levant. Born in San Francisco, Gale rose to fame as part of the vaudeville act... 9 KB (511 words) - 22:28, 7 April 2024 |
Sumur (Biblical Hebrew: צְמָרִי [collective noun denoting the city inhabitants]; Egyptian: Smr; Akkadian: Sumuru; Assyrian: Simirra) was a Phoenician... 5 KB (447 words) - 00:09, 24 February 2024 |
The Northern Levant is a region in the Eastern Mediterranean, part of the wider region of the Levant, going south as far as the Litani River. In archaeology... 2 KB (230 words) - 17:57, 6 April 2024 |
names of the Levant, a large area in the Near East, or its constituent parts. These names have applied to a part or the whole of the Levant. On occasion... 22 KB (2,412 words) - 11:50, 14 April 2024 |
Territory of the Islamic State (redirect from Administrative divisions of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) Babil. When the group changed its name to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and expanded into Syria in April 2013, it claimed nine Syrian provinces... 105 KB (8,297 words) - 08:09, 26 April 2024 |
Al-Nusra Front (redirect from Al-Nusra Front to Protect the Levant) Al-Nusra Front, also known as Front for the Conquest of the Levant, was a Salafi jihadist organization fighting against Syrian Ba'athist government forces... 169 KB (16,253 words) - 05:30, 20 April 2024 |
Levante, Spain (redirect from Spanish Levant) (Spanish: [leˈβante]; Catalan: Llevant [ʎəˈβan, ʎəˈvant, ʎeˈβan, ʎeˈvant]; "Levant, East") is a name used to refer to the eastern region of the Iberian Peninsula... 2 KB (243 words) - 16:20, 25 October 2022 |
Levant is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,970 at the 2020 census. Originally called Kenduskeag Plantation, the town... 12 KB (1,183 words) - 01:15, 27 March 2024 |
Gossypium herbaceum (redirect from Levant cotton) Gossypium herbaceum, commonly known as Levant cotton, is a species of cotton native to the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa and Arabia, where it... 5 KB (602 words) - 15:25, 16 April 2023 |