Levant (disambiguation)
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The Levant is a region in the eastern Mediterranean.
Levant may also refer to:
Places
- Île du Levant, a French island in the Mediterranean
- Levante, Spain, a region in eastern Spain
- Levant, Kansas, an unincorporated community in Thomas County, Kansas, USA
- Levant, Maine, a town in Penobscot County, Maine, USA
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as ISIS and Daesh.
Other uses
- Levant is the default name of the protagonist in Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu
- Levant. one of the main characters in the video game Hexyz Force
- Levant (wind), a wind in southern France
- Levant (journal), an academic journal published by the Council for British Research in the Levant
- The Levant (poem), an epic poem by Mircea Cărtărescu
- HMS Levant (1758), a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1758 and broken up by 1780
- HMS Levant (1813), a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1813
- USS Levant (1837), sloop-of-war in the United States Navy (1837–1860)
- Levant Company, an English company formed to trade with the Middle East
- Levant Mine and Beam Engine, an engine at a tin mine on the western coast of Cornwall
- Levant sparrowhawk, bird of prey
- Levant Tower, one of Les Mercuriales twin towers in Paris, France
People with the surname
- Ezra Levant (born 1972), Canadian political commentator
- Oscar Levant (1906–1972), American musician, author, and actor
See also
- HMS Levant, a list of ships of the Royal Navy with the name
- Southern Levant, an area of the Levant
- Levantine Sea
- Levant Basin, or Levantine Basin
- Levanter (disambiguation)
- Levent, a district in Istanbul, Turkey
- Levante (disambiguation)
- Levantine (disambiguation)
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