The
Levant is a geographical term that refers to a 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 400 miles north to south from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert, and 70 to 100 miles east to west between the sea and the Arabian desert. The term is also sometimes used to refer to modern events or states in the region immediately bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea:
Cyprus,
Israel,
Palestine,
Jordan,
Lebanon, and
Syria.