Cyprus

The Levant (/ləˈvænt/) is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia.

In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is equivalent to Cyprus and a stretch of land bordering the Mediterranean Sea in western Asia:^[4][5] i.e.

the historical region of Syria ("Greater Syria"), which includes present-day Israel,

Jordan,

Lebanon,

Syria,

the Palestinian territories and

most of Turkey southwest of the middle Euphrates.