Levant

This category covers the area that was once called Canaan, or Beyhn Nahrîn, or Eber Nâri, or Bilad al-Sham, or the Levant, or Greater Syria. In other words, Syria, Jorda, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestine territories.

There are 354 items in Levant:

Bethlehem

Bethlehem: town in Judaea, birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth.Bethlehem Bethlehem on the Madaba Map Already mentioned in the Amarna Letters (fourteenth century…

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Bsharre

Bsharre: town in northern Lebanon, site of an archaic tomb. Bsharre, tomb, outside The modern town of Bsharre (Bcharré, Bsharri...) is at…

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Byblos

Byblos (Hebrew גבל; Greek Βύβλος): one of the oldest cities in the world, inhabited from the Neolithic until the Middle Ages, modern Jubayl.Origins …

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