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[1] Allon Bachuth; Alqosh, in the Nineveh Plains, mentiomed in the Book of Nahum; Ammon – Canaanite state; Attalia – In Asia Minor; Antioch – In Asia Minor; Arabia – (in biblical times and until the 7th century AD Arabia was confined to the Arabian Peninsula) Aram/Aramea – (Modern Syria) Arbela (Erbil/Irbil) – Assyrian city; Archevite
Algeria [1] Cuba [2] [3] Morocco [4] 1978 1978 1978 South Lebanon conflict. Part of the Israeli–Lebanese conflict Israel. SLA PLO: 1982 1985 1982 Lebanon War. Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Israel SLA Lebanese Front: PLO. Syria Hezbollah. Jammoul Amal. Al-Mourabitoun Islamic Amal. ASALA Al-Tawhid. PKK. 1985 Ongoing Iran–Israel ...
The Southern Levant refers to the lower half of the Levant but there is some variance of geographical definition, with the widest definition including Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, southern Syria, and the Sinai Desert. [7] In the field of archaeology, the southern Levant is "the region formerly identified as Syria-Palestine and including ...
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'.
The Levant is one of the earliest centers of sedentism and agriculture throughout history, and some of the earliest agrarian cultures, Pre-Pottery Neolithic, developed in the region. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Previously regarded as a peripheral region in the ancient Near East , modern academia largely considers the Levant as a center of civilization on ...
Ruins of the royal palace of the Omiride dynasty in the city of Samaria, which was the capital of Israel from 880 BCE to 720 BCE.. According to Israel Finkelstein, Shoshenq I's campaign in the second half of the 10th century BCE collapsed the early polity of Gibeon in central highlands, and made possible the beginning of the Northern Kingdom, with its capital at Shechem, [10] [11] around 931 BCE.
the levant. The temple in antis is an architectural design for temples in Syria and other parts of the Levant starting in the Early Bronze Age (3500-3000 B.C.E.) and persisting until the Iron Age (1000-586 BCE). [1] The design has a porch formed by extensions, or antae, of the side walls at each side. [2]
Ghassulian (1 C, 11 P) H. Hebrew Bible nations (24 C, 52 P) I. ... Pages in category "Ancient Levant" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.