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Boundaries of the Levant Basin, or Levantine Basin (US EIA) The Leviathan gas field is quite central in the south-eastern corner, the Levantine Basin. [3] [4]To the west of the Levantine Deep Marine Basin is the Nile Delta Basin, followed by the Herodotus Basin, 130,000 km 2 (50,000 sq mi) large and up to 3,200 m (10,500 ft) deep, [5] which – at a possible age of 340 million years – is ...
The Gulf of Antalya (Turkish: Antalya Körfezi) is a large bay of the northern Levantine Sea, in the eastern Mediterranean Sea south of Antalya Province, Turkey. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It includes some of the main seaside resorts of Turkey, also known as the " Turkish Riviera ".
Nicolas Sanson, Map of Eastern Mediterranean, 1651. The eastern Mediterranean region is commonly interpreted in two ways: The Levant, including its historically tied neighboring countries, Balkans and islands of Greece. The region of Syria with the island of Cyprus (also known as the Levant), Egypt, Greek Dodecanese and Anatolian Turkey. [11]
Levantine Sea: 101,000 2011 Greek: References See also. List of Mediterranean countries; This page was last edited on 9 January 2025, at 01:53 (UTC). Text is ...
The Eratosthenes Seamount or Eratosthenes Tablemount is a seamount in the Eastern Mediterranean, in the Levantine basin about 100 kilometres (60 mi) south of western Cyprus. [1] [2] Unlike most seamounts, it is a carbonate platform, not a volcano. [3] It is a large, submerged massif, about 120 by 80 kilometres (75 by 50 mi).
The Gulf of Alexandretta forms the easternmost bay or inlet of the Mediterranean Sea.It lies beside the southern coast of Turkey, near its border with Syria.In antiquity, the adjacent Nur Mountains were usually thought to separate the regions of Cilicia and Syria, although Herodotus at one point places the division further south at Ras al-Bassit (the classical Posidium).
The term Levant appears in English in 1497, and originally meant 'the East' or 'Mediterranean lands east of Italy'. [23] It is borrowed from the French levant 'rising', referring to the rising of the sun in the east, [23] or the point where the sun rises. [24] The phrase is ultimately from the Latin word levare, meaning 'lift, raise'.
Aegean Sea with island groups Extent of the Aegean Sea. This is a list of Aegean Islands, which includes the English, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, Latin, Medieval Latin, and Italian names for these islands in the Aegean Sea arranged by island group.