Northern Levant
The Northern Levant is a region in the Eastern Mediterranean, part of the wider region of the Levant, going south as far as the Litani River.
greater Syria.[1]
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: c. 8000–332 BCE (OHAL; 2013) defines its boundaries, for the specific purposes of the book, as follows.
- To the north: the Taurus Mountains[1] or the Plain of 'Amuq[2]
- To the east: the eastern deserts, i.e. (from north to south) the Euphrates and the
- To the south: the Litani River, which marks the boundary towards the Southern Levant.[2]
- To the west: the Mediterranean Sea[1]
See also
References
Bibliography
- Steiner, Margreet L.; Killebrew, Ann E. (2013). The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: c. 8000-332 BCE. OUP Oxford. pp. 2, 9. ISBN 9780199212972.