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2 unusual facts about Levantine


Haitian cuisine

Years of adaptation have led to these cuisines (e.g.: Levantine from Arab Migration to Haiti) merging with Haitian cuisine.

Levantine

Levantines (Latin Christians), Levantines, Franco-Levantines, or Latin-Levantines, Italian Levantine, Latin Christians who lived under the Ottoman Empire or in the modern Middle East.


Balthasar's Odyssey

Before the dawn of the apocalyptic 'Year of the Beast' in 1666, Balthasar Embriaco, a Levantine merchant, sets out on an adventure that will take him across the breadth of the civilised world from Constantinople, through the Mediterranean, to London, shortly before the Great Fire.

Buca

Its rich Levantine residents who acquired the surrounding vineyards typically had Latin backgrounds, as opposed to those who originally came from Britain and who preferred Bornova.

Gabriel Josipovici

He was born in Nice, France in 1940, of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine Jewish parents.

Levanter

A Levanter, or Levantine is a person who was born in the Levant, especially one of mixed European-Levantine ancestry

Levantine mansions of İzmir

Levantine mansions are mostly situated in the modern-day metropolitan districts of Buca and Bornova, which are located slightly inland, and which were the favoured residential quarters for the city's richer classes of Western origins or, in the case of a few built more recently, in the coastal district of Karşıyaka.

Reseda minoica

The specific name is given after the Minoan civilisation, which flourished during the Bronze Age in Crete, and whose cultural influences spread to Cyprus, Anatolia and the Levantine coast.

Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin

There has been much debate over the dating of Levantine paintings, and whether they belong to the Mesolithic, the end of the Paleolithic, or the Neolithic; they clearly represent a very different style from the much more famous Art of the Upper Paleolithic in caves on either side of the Pyrenees, but yet may well show continuity with it.

Tantur

Tantour, a headdress worn by Levantine women during the nineteenth century

Thomas E. Levy

Levy is a field archaeologist with interests in the role of technology, especially early mining and metallurgy, on social evolution from the beginnings of sedentism and the domestication of plants and animals in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period (7500 BCE) to the rise of the first historic Levantine state-level societies in the Iron Age (1200 – 500 BCE).


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