In the Levant

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Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom—Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut—cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.

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This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before This IS NOT an OCR?d book with strange charactersAuthor: C. Newton. This book is one of the great additions to the Levant section in any scholarly library. It is well researched and very well illustrated.

This reviewer is impressed by the rigour and the excellence of the research that went into this work.5/5(5). Through focusing on the unintended by-products of New England Puritanism as a cultural transplant in the Levant, this book explores the socio-historical forces which account for the failure of early envoys attempts to convert the native, population.2/5.

Additional Physical Format: Online version: Warner, Charles Dudley, In the Levant. Boston: J.R. Osgood and Co., (OCoLC) Material Type. This book is a nice resource on the history of the Levant. It's a quick ready but tightly packed with a lot of information.

Unfortunately, it already needs an additional chapter on the region's development over the last 8 to 10 years/5. Buy Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Mansel, Philip (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store.

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My library. Genre/Form: Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) Additional Physical Format: Online version: Warner, Charles Dudley, In the Levant. Boston: Houghton. The Natufian Culture in the Levant. This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture.5/5(3).

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Memoirs of an Amnesiac Hardcover – by Oscar Levant. Witty, acerbic, and often self-deprecating, the book casually drops scores of famous names such as Levant's good friend George Gershwin, Arturo Toscanini, Otto Klemperer, William Faulkner, Harpo Marx, Irving Berlin, and Joseph In the Levant book.

Kennedy/5(30). Book Description When Western explorers first encountered dolmens in the Levant, they thought they had discovered the origins of a megalithic phenomenon that spread as far as the Atlantic coast. The unification of Egypt and Syria by Saladin gradually changed the balance of power, which slowly begun to tilt in favour of the Muslims.

This book examines the development and role of Muslim fortresses in the Levant at the time of the Crusaders and the Mongol invasion, situating the study within a broad historical, political and military by: 1.

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Levant, (from the French lever, “to rise,” as in sunrise, meaning the east), historically, the countries along the eastern Mediterranean shores. Common use of the term is associated with Venetian and other trading ventures and the establishment of commerce with cities such as Tyre and Sidon as a result of the was applied to the coastlands of Asia Minor and Syria.

The Levant (/ l ə ˈ v æ n t /) is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western its narrowest sense, it is equivalent to the historical region of Syria, which included present-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine and most of Turkey south-east of the middle its widest historical sense, Languages: Levantine Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic.

Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedomSmyrna, Alexandria, and Beirutcities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In these key ports at the crossroads of East and West, against all expectations, cosmopolitanism and nationalism flourished simultaneously/5.

Additional Physical Format: Online version: Warner, Charles Dudley, In the Levant. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., [©] (OCoLC) Genre/Form: Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) Additional Physical Format: Online version: Warner, Charles Dudley, In the Levant.

(OCoLC)   Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom—Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut—cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In these key ports at the crossroads of East and West, against all expectations, cosmopolitanism and nationalism flourished simultaneously.

Levant and Anatolia, but did not reach the previous peak in the central and southern Levant,25 5. A gradual rise in sea level after the Late Glacial Maximum until the mid-Holocene reduced the flat, sandy coastal plain of the Levant by a stretch 5 to 20 km wide and km long.

Given the poor aquatic resources in this section of the. Additional Physical Format: Online version: Warner, Charles Dudley, In the Levant. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, (OCoLC) Material Type. Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom—Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut—cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.

In these key ports at the crossroads of East and West, against all expectations, cosmopolitanism and nationalism flourished simultaneously.5/5(1). The Levant was a region in Lyra's world. A book called A Phrase-Book for the Levant (edited by James Verity and published by Smith and Strange Ltd) was about phrases spoken in this area.

A map of the Levant and the Ottoman Empire was featured on Globetrotter's list of maps. The S.S. Zenobia went on a day cruise around the Levant. The book The Silk Road, which Hannah World: Lyra's world. The Alawis of Syria: War, Faith and Politics in the Levant and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle.

Learn more. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App.3/5(1). The Levant is the large area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and Mesopotamia in the east.

It stretches miles north to south from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert, and 70 to miles east to west between the sea and the Arabian desert. The term is also sometimes used. By tightly defining the term 'dolmen' itself, this book brings these mysterious monuments into sharper focus.

Drawing on historical, archaeological and geological sources, it is shown that dolmens in the Levant mostly concentrate in the eastern escarpment of the Jordan Rift Valley, and in the Galilean by: 2.

The Muslim conquest of the Levant (Arabic: اَلْـفَـتْـحُ الْإٍسْـلَامِيُّ لِـلـشَّـامِ ‎, Al-Faṫṫḥul-Islāmiyyuash-Shām), also known as the Arab conquest of the Levant (Arabic: اَلْـفَـتْـحُ الْـعَـرَبِيُّ لِـلـشَّـامِ ‎, Al-Faṫṫḥul-ʿArabiyyu Lish-Shām), occurred in Location: Levant (modern Palestine, Israel, Syria.

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Language: English: LoC Class: G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Subject. History books Levant by Philip Mansel – review Norman Stone enjoys the history of a trio of Mediterranean cities Norman Stone.

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The Levant is a term in geography that refers to an area in the Middle East which includes the historic areas of Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Syria. The Levant is bounded by the Taurus Mountains to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the west, the northern Arabian Desert to the south and Upper Mesopotamia to the east.

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Be the first to write .The Epipalaeolithic Near East designates the Epipalaeolithic ("Final Old Stone Age", also known as Mesolithic) in the prehistory of the Near is the period after the Upper Palaeolithic and before the Neolithic, between approximat years Before Present (BP).

The people of the Epipalaeolithic were nomadic hunter-gatherers that generally lived in small. Title:: Naval Wars in the Levant, Author:: Anderson, R. C. (Roger Charles), Note: Princeton: Princeton University Press, Link: page images at.