The Levant (; Arabic: المشرق /ʔal-maʃriq/[1][5][6][7][8][9][10]) is an approximate heestorical geografical term referrin tae a muckle aurie in the eastren Mediterranean.
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![Thumb](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Levant_%28orthographic_projection%29.png/250px-Levant_%28orthographic_projection%29.png) Kintras o the Levant in the broad, heestoric meanin (equivalent tae the eastren Mediterranean) [1][2][3] Kintras o the Levant in 20t century uisage (equivalent tae Sirie-Palestine) [1]
Kintras an regions sometimes includit in the modren defineetion
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Kintras an regions | Cyprus
Israel
Jordan
Lebanon
Sirie
Turkey (Hatay Province) |
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Population | 47,129,325[4] |
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Demonym | Levantine |
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Leids | Levantine Arabic, Ebreu, Aramaic, Armenie, Circassian, Greek, Kurdish, Ladino, Turkis |
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Time Zones | UTC+02:00 (EET) (Turkey an Cyprus) |
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Microsoft Encarta (2009) "Levant"
Oxford Dictionaries Online. "Levant." Oxford University Press. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
Population foond bi addin aw the kintras' populations (Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Sirie, Palestine an Hatay Province)
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