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It derives from the Italian levante, meaning "rising", implying the rising of the Sun in the east, [3] [2] and is broadly equivalent to the term al-Mashriq (Arabic: ٱلْمَشْرِق, [ʔal.maʃ.riq]), [8] meaning "the eastern place, where the Sun rises". [9] In 1581, England set up the Levant Company to trade with the Ottoman Empire. [3]
Its literal meaning is "the east", and thus makes sense only from the perspective of those who live to the west of Valencia, Catalonia, or the Balearics. However, the Levante does lend its name to a popular regional beer, Estrella Levante, owned by S.A. Damm and produced in Murcia as well as Levante UD, a Spanish football club team in Valencia.
During the Syrian Wars between the Seleucid dynasty and the Ptolemaic dynasty (274-168 BC), the region was known as Coele-Syria traditionally given the meaning 'hollow' Syria. The later Hellenistic term Koile Syria that appears first in Arrian 's Anabasis Alexandri (2.13.7) in AD 145 and has been much discussed, is usually interpreted as a ...
When it brings good weather, it is known as the "levant blanc", [1] or "levante calma" in Gibraltar. The origin of the name is the same as that of the name Levant for the region of the eastern Mediterranean: it is the Latin word "levante", the participle of levare "to raise" – as in sol levante "rising sun". It thus referred to the eastern ...
Anatomically modern Homo sapiens are demonstrated at the area of Mount Carmel [8] in Canaan during the Middle Paleolithic dating from c. 90,000 BC.These migrants out of Africa seem to have been unsuccessful, [9] and by c. 60,000 BC in the Levant, Neanderthal groups seem to have benefited from the worsening climate and replaced Homo sapiens, who were possibly confined once more to Africa.
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Levante, Spain, the eastern Iberian coastal region of Spain Riviera di Levante, an Italian name for the eastern section of the Italian Riviera Sestri Levante , an Italian town
Economists have warned that consumers could bear the brunt of sweeping tariffs, which may lead to higher prices. Companies could respond to tariffs by buying a product in the U.S. rather than from ...