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	History of the Levant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article deals with the general history of the Levant, which 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 north, and Mesopotamia to the east.
		The Levant does not include Anatolia (although at times Cilicia may be included), the Caucasus Mountains, or any part of the Arabian Peninsula proper.
		The earliest known permanent settlements in the Levant were established by the hunters and gatherers of the Natufian culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Levant (1808 words)

	history - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The 1911 Encyclopdia Britannica remarked that "history in the wider sense is all that has happened, not merely all the phenomena of human life, but those of the natural world as well.
		Knowledge of history is often said to encompass both knowledge of past events and historical thinking skills.
		A form of historical speculation known commonly as virtual history, or "counterfactual history", has also been adopted by some historians as a means of assessing and exploring the possible outcomes if certain events had not occurred or had occurred in a different way.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/history (497 words)

	History of Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This article discusses the history of the modern State of Israel, from its inception in 1948 to the present.
		See also History of Palestine for history of the region from approximately 600 BCE to 1948 CE, and History of ancient Israel and Judah for prior history.
		History of Israel and Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (http://www.mideastweb.org/briefhistory.htm)
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/History_of_Israel (5092 words)

	Levant - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in Southwest Asia south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, and in the east, the north Arabian Desert and Mesopotamia.
		Levant is also the name of a scholarly journal published annually by the Council for British Research in the Levant.
		Levante was also used in Spanish for a region in the Mediterranean coast covering today's Valencia and Región de Murcia.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /levant.htm (482 words)

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		The history of the Yemen Arab Republic: 1971-1990.
		The bibliography of the history of London to 1939.
		History of chivalric literature and its influence on the prose romance in Europe.
	www.r-alston.co.uk /semlist.htm (2486 words)

	History of Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This article deals with the history of Syria, and the nations previously occupying its territory.
		Eventually the Persians took control of Syria as part of their general control of Southwest Asia; this control transferred to the Greeks after Alexander the Great's conquests and thence to the Romans, the Nabataeans and the Byzantines.
		Syria is significant in the history of Christianity; Paul was converted on the road to Damascus and established the first organized Christian Church at Antioch in ancient Syria, from which he left on many of his missionary journeys.
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Syria_(Roman_province) (2088 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		History is often used as a generic term for information about the past, such as in "geologic history of the Earth." When used as the name of a field of study, history refers to the study and interpretation of the record of human societies.
		Although a certain amount of bias in history studies is inescapable, national bias being probably the most important, history can also be studied from a narrow ideological perspective, perhaps one that the practitioners feel is usually ignored.
		A form of historical speculation known commonly as virtual history (also called "counterfactual history") been adopted by some historians as a means of assessing and exploring the possible outcomes if certain events had not occurred or had occurred in a different way to that which they did.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/hi/History.htm (397 words)

	Encyclopedia: Levant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Levant or "Sham" (Arabic root word related to the term "Semite") is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in Southwest Asia south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, and the north Arabian Desert and Mesopotamia to the east.
		Sinai Peninsula, Gulf of Suez (west), Gulf of Aqaba (east) from Space Shuttle STS-40 The Sinai Peninsula (in Arabic, Shibh Jazirat Sina) is a triangle-shaped peninsula lying between the Mediterranean Sea (to the north) and Red Sea (to the south).
		The Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) was formed in 1998 with the amalgamation of the British Institute at Amman for Archaeology and History and the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Levant (3031 words)

	Our History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Levant Wesleyan Church was founded one year after the Civil War when a young Wesleyan Methodist preacher named Emory Jones came to the thinly populated settlement of Levant.
		During these years, Levant Church was honored by having its members win The Outstanding Layman of the Year Award for the Western New York District of the Wesleyan Church: Gail Olofson (1978), Harold Crist (1979), Myril Ball (1980), and Dr. Hilton R. Jacobson (1982).
		Throughout the history of Levant Church there have been many highlights as well as times of struggle, but the perseverance of the community of believers shows that this is a work of God’s planting and is destined to live until our Lord returns for us!
	levantonline.org /History.htm (760 words)

	Ancient Ships in art history: The navy of King Solomon and Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This myth is considered to be legend and falls outside of the classification of history but the story line intimates the extent to which travel, trade and colonization may have occurred in the ancient world.
		Archeological clues along the coastal Levant strongly suggest that the city states of coastal Levant were for many centuries trading outposts of the Cypro/Minoan and Mycenaean cultures.
		The Bible which is consedered by many to be the primary record of Jewish history clearly records the relationships in ancient history that Solomon's Kingdom had with the seafaring nations of the Eastern Mediterranean.
	www.artsales.com /ARTistory/Ancient_Ships/11_solomons_navy.html (1981 words)

	History of Palestine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The History of Palestine is the account of events in Palestine from ancient times to the present.
		In 722 BCE, the northern Kingdom of Ephraim (commonly referred to as Israel, sometimes as Samaria) was destroyed by the Assyrians, its inhabitants ("the Lost Tribes") believed to have been deported, and replaced by settlers from elsewhere in the Assyrian Empire.
		The 5th century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus, and later Ptolemy and Pliny, referred to the eastern coast of the Mediterranean as "Syria Palaestina", and it is generally accepted that the region they referred to extended further inland than the domain of the Philistines.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/History-of-Palestine.htm (3629 words)

	ADALIA - LoveToKnow Article on ADALIA
		It is not connected by a chaussee with any point outside its immediate province, but it has considerable importance as the administrative capital of a rich and isolated sanjak.
		The family of Tekke Oglu, domiciled near Perga, though reduced to submission in 1812 by Mahmud II., continued to be a rival power to the Ottoman governor till within the present generation, surviving by many years the fall of the other great Beys of Anatolia.
		The present population of Adalia, which includes many Christians and Jews, still living, as in the middle ages, in separate quarters, the former round the walled mina or port, is about 25,000.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AD/ADALIA.htm (361 words)

	Levant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For other uses of the terms Levant, Levante or Levantine, see Levant (disambiguation).
		The term Levant, originally used in the wider sense of "Mediterranean lands east of Italy", is first attested in English in 1497, from Middle French levant "The Orient", the participle of lever "to raise", as in soleil levant "rising sun", from Latin levare.
		The term became current in English in the 16th century, along with the first English merchant adventurers in the region: English ships appeared in the Mediterranean in the 1570s and the English merchant company signed its agreement ("capitulations") with the Grand Turk in 1579 (Braudel).
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Levant (565 words)

	History of the Levant -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For what the area is called by natives and others, see (Click link for more info and facts about Names of the Levant) Names of the Levant.
		The earliest known permanent settlements in the (The former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now occupied by Lebanon and Syria and Israel) Levant were established by the hunters and gatherers of the (Click link for more info and facts about Natufian culture) Natufian culture.
		For subsequent history see (Click link for more info and facts about History of Islam) History of Islam.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_the_levant.htm (2144 words)

	Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bean, J.M.W. "Henry IV and the Percies," History 44: 212-227.
		A study in the history of the family and village life in 14th century England.
		Ridder-Symoens, H. de (ed.) History of the university in Europe, I: Universities in the Middle Ages.
	history.boisestate.edu /hy309/Admin/books.html (2555 words)

	History of Palestine - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them.
		While obviously inconsiderate of the Arab nationalism, which had had a long history even prior to Israel's establishment, the statement was not meant to imply the absence of Arabs in Palestine before 1948, but rather that the inhabitants lacked a single national agenda.
		Being a major center for Jewish religious life (for instance it was where the Mishnah and the Palestinian Talmud were written), it has been the aim of numerous Jewish travellers from all over the Jewish world to visit there.
	openproxy.ath.cx /hi/History_of_Palestine.html (2342 words)

	History of Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The creation of the modern State of Israel in 1948 was preceded by more than 60 years of efforts by ZionismZionist leaders to establish a sovereign nation as a national homeland for Jews.
		Jewish immigration grew slowly in the 1920s; it increased substantially in the 1930s, due to political turmoil in Europe and Nazi persecution, until restrictions were imposed by the United Kingdom in 1939.
		History of Israel Immigration from the former Soviet Union
	www.infothis.com /find/History_of_Israel (4842 words)

	Crusades in the Levant (1097-1291)
		After the Levant campaigns ended, The expression continued to be used to label military expeditions against Islamic regimes and even to 'sanctify' warfare against heretics of the official Western Christian Church.
		The original Crusades in the Levant were an outgrowth of the revival of religious feeling and missionary zeal which had begun in Europe in the tenth century.
		Nor was the Church merely able, through the crusades, to direct the martial instinct of a feudal society; it was also able to pursue the object of its own immediate policy, and to attempt the universal spread of Christianity, even at the edge of the sword, over the whole of the known world.
	www.xenophongroup.com /montjoie/crusade2.htm (7678 words)

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		The Middle East is the earliest area in the world to see the development of civilization in Mesopotamia around 2400 BC.
		The rise of Islam beginning in the year 610 was one of the most important turning points in the history of the Middle East.
		Transportation in the Middle East throughout history was cheaper than in most other areas of the world.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/m/mi/middle_east.html (883 words)

	B416 -- The History of the Levant from Paul to Bar Kochba
		The history of the Jews in Palestine, however, was not brought to an end in 70.
		The Church continued to expand, so that by the time of Bar Kochba, it was found in every part of the empire and had even sent missionaries as far as India, England, and Spain.
		The tandem history of the Jews and the Christians would continue to the present, and will no doubt continue in the future.
	www.theology.edu /b416.htm (691 words)

	The History of the Ancient Levant of the Near East
		The History of the Ancient Levant of the Near East
		Mesolithic 2 seems to have come to an end about 8500 BC throughout the Levant and I shall take this date as the beginning of the Neolithic.
		The Neolithic did not finally run its course in the southern and central Levant until the 4th millennium about 3750 or 3500 BC when the Chalcolithic began.
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /Levant.html (177 words)

	Levant, Maine ME, town profile (Penobscot County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Levant, ME Levant is a town in Penobscot County, in the Bangor metro area.
		At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Levant was $18,671, compared with $21,587 nationally.
		Median rent in Levant, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $484.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=62933 (401 words)

	World History Connected \| Vol. 2 No. 1 \| Teaching from the Edge
		Moving the edge to history's center is already common to a lot of scholarship.
		Throughout much of its history, the Levant stood at the edge of two imperial systems: Egyptian and Mesopotamian; Parthian and Roman.
		Afonso's letters, alluded to in many world history texts, may be found in Alfred J. Andrea and James H. Overfield, The Human Record: Sources of Global History, vol.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/whc/2.1/laichas.html (1678 words)

	L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Levant is a geographical region which includes Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Territory, and the western half of Syria (the Orontes Valley and the region of Aleppo).
		The Levant is a more or less heterogeneous region divided into defined areas of different ecological and environmental character surprisingly similar to that of California.
		The custom, required in biblical times under certain circumstances (Genesis 38:8, Deuteronomy 25:5-10), that a younger brother of a deceased brother is to marry the widow so that the first child will bear the name of the deceased and take his inheritance rights.
	www.bibarch.com /glossary/L.html (1310 words)

	The Truth Behind StarGate: L
		Later, the term was used to denote the coast of Asia Minor and Syria and sometimes referencing the area from Greece to Egypt.
		The term "Levant" also came to be used to denote Anatolia (Turkey), the Middle East, or the Near East.
		After World War I, the name "Levant States" was used to refer to the countries of Syria and Lebanon.
	isis_athena1690.tripod.com /L.html (1521 words)

	History of Levant, Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Levant is an agricultural town located in the middle of the southern section of Penobscot County.
		The Little Kenduskeag, or Black Stream, is the principal water-course, pursuing a widely winding way from west to east through the town.
		In 1801 Major Moses Hodsdon settled at what is now Kenduskeag Village, but was then a part of Levant; where, in the following year, he erected a saw and grist-mill, three dwelling-houses, a store and flsmith-shop, which were the first framed buildings within the town.
	history.rays-place.com /me/levant-me.htm (288 words)

	History of Iran, Iran Paradise Tour and Travel Agency, Travel to Iran, History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ancient nation of Iran, historically known to the West as Persia until March 21, 1935 (see also History of Persia, History of Levant).
		Modern Iranian history began with a nationalist uprising against the Shah (who remained in power) in 1905, the granting of a limited constitution in 1906 (making the country a constitutional monarchy), and the discovery of oil in 1908.
		The key to the region was the British discovery of oil there in 1908 (see British Petroleum).
	www.iranparadise.com /Iran/Iran-History.htm (1572 words)

	Category:History of the Middle East - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For more information, see the main article about History of the Middle East.
		Articles in category "History of the Middle East"
		This page was last modified 20:52, 28 May 2005.
	www.butte-silverbow.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Category:History_of_the_Middle_East (97 words)

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