Île du Levant (pronounced [il dy ləvɑ̃]), sometimes referred to as Le Levant, is a French island in the Mediterranean off the coast of the Riviera, near...
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Eurasia. In its widest historical sense, the Levant included all of the Eastern Mediterranean with its islands; that is, it included all of the countries...
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refer to: Levant Island, a French island in the Mediterranean Levant, Kansas, an unincorporated community in Thomas County, Kansas, USA Levant, Maine, a...
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The Levant is the area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south...
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The first USS Levant was a second-class sloop-of-war in the United States Navy. Levant was launched on 28 December 1837 by New York Navy Yard; and commissioned...
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Wildlife in the Levant encompasses all types of wild plants and animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fresh and saltwater fish, and...
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Filming took place in Toulon, then in the Giens Peninsula and the Levant Island, at the DGA Essais de missiles in the Var department in Brest, and in...
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The levant (Catalan: Llevant, Italian: Levante, Maltese: Lvant, Greek: Λεβάντες, Spanish: Levante) is an easterly wind that blows in the western Mediterranean...
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staff speak English. Wreck of Rochelongue CHM Montalivet Euronat Levant Island Platais Island Hoad, Phil (27 August 2015). "Welcome to the naked city: sun...
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and commune in Algeria Héliopolis, a town in France situated on the Levant Island Heliópolis, Seville, neighbourhood of the Bellavista-La Palmera district...
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This is a list of earthquakes in the Levant, including earthquakes that either had their epicenter in the Levant or caused significant damage in the region...
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Territory of the Islamic State (redirect from Administrative divisions of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant)
Babil. When the group changed its name to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and expanded into Syria in April 2013, it claimed nine Syrian provinces...
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test site was established at the French naval base on the Ile du Levant, an offshore island in the Mediterranean near Toulon. Known as CERES, it replaced...
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Naxos (redirect from Island of Naxos)
Thévenot, in Travels into the Levant (1687, London, pp. 103–105). Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, in A Voyage Into the Levant (1718, London, pp. 161–176)....
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breeding sites, and also from animals such as rats and cats. On Le Levant Island, one of its major breeding locations, cats kill thousands of birds each...
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Levant bole is an earthy clay brought from the Levant, and historically used in medicine for the same purposes as Armenian bole. It was indeed so similar...
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HMS Levant was a 20-gun Cyrus-class sixth rate of the Royal Navy built by William Courtney, of Chester. She was one of five British warships that USS Constitution...
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List of wars and battles involving the Islamic State (redirect from Wars and battles involving the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant)
Al-Qaeda–Islamic State conflict Islamic State of Iraq Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant List of wars and battles involving al-Qaeda "Iraqi Town Besieged by Islamic...
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ship Naïade (1980), a transport used to ferry personnel between Toulon and Levant Island. (Y702) Roche (2005), p. 321, volume 1. Roche (2005), p. 358, volume...
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ways: The Levant, including its historically tied neighboring countries, Balkans and islands of Greece. The region of Syria with the island of Cyprus...
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Levante, Spain (redirect from Spanish Levant)
(Spanish: [leˈβante]; Catalan: Llevant [ʎəˈβan, ʎəˈvant, ʎeˈβan, ʎeˈvant]; "Levant, East") is a name used to refer to the eastern region of the Iberian Peninsula...
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HMS Levant was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Coventry class, which saw Royal Navy service against France in the Seven Years' War, and against France...
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Near Eastern archaeology (section Southern Levant)
Balkans, and North Africa, including the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, East Thrace and Egypt. The history of archaeological investigation...
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Milos (redirect from Mílos Island)
Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de (1717). Relation d'un Voyage du Levant [An Account of a Voyage into the Levant] (in French). Thompson, Charles (1752). The Travels...
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Late Bronze Age collapse (section Southern Levant)
better-known Archaic age around 750 BC. The Hittite Empire of Anatolia and the Levant collapsed, while states such as the Middle Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia...
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astronautix.com. Retrieved 2023-09-03. Serra, Jean-Jacques (2005). "Levant island and Biscarosse". Rockets in Europe. Archived from the original on 2005-02-04...
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with ISI and announced the formation of "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant". Al-Qaeda Emir Ayman al-Zawahiri denounced the merger proposal and demanded...
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and Turkey. Sazan Kunë Ksamil Islands Franz Joseph Island Zvërnec Islands Tongo Island Stil Island Čiovo Brijuni (14 islands) Brusnik Cres Drvenik Mali Drvenik...
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The Levant Schooner Flotilla was an Allied naval organisation during World War II that facilitated covert and irregular military operations in the Aegean...
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exploitation film. It was shot on location at the naturist resort on Levant Island on the French Riviera. During an election in a small town in Provence...
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