Levant

Levant (from the Ital. Levante, the 'Orient,' or 'Rising'—i.e. the East), a name employed to designate the eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea and the coast regions of Syria, Asia Minor, and Egypt. In a wider sense, it is applied to all the regions eastward from Italy, as far as the Euphrates and the Nile.—Levantine is a name given to persons mainly of Frank extraction born in Turkey and the towns of the Levant.—Levanter is a stormy wind blowing up the Mediterranean from the Levant.