Eastern Mediterranean is a loose definition of the eastern approximate half , or third, of the Mediterranean Sea , often defined as the countries around the Levantine Sea .
5-761: 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 . In archaeology , the Northern Levant can be defined as the northern section of what in Arabic is called " bilad al-sham , 'the land of sham [Syria]'", in other terms the northern part of greater Syria . The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of
10-634: A term for the Greater Balkans: Albania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Greece , Slovenia , North Macedonia , Serbia , Kosovo , Montenegro , Romania . A five-author statistics-rich study of 2019 has sought to add Moldova and Ukraine beyond, which others link more to the Black Sea 's economy and history. The three-word term is mainly a complex euphemism for the Balkan peninsula used by those who stigmatise
15-573: Is climatically and economically part of the region. The eastern Mediterranean region is commonly interpreted in two ways: The countries and territories of the Eastern Mediterranean include Cyprus , Turkey ( Anatolia ), its smaller Hatay Province , the Greek Dodecanese islands, and the countries of Lebanon , Syria , Palestine , Israel , Jordan and Egypt . North-eastern Mediterranean has been put to print as
20-660: The Greek Dodecanese islands, and the countries of Egypt , Israel , Jordan , Palestine , Syria and Lebanon . Its broadest uses can encompass the Libyan Sea (thus Libya ), the Aegean Sea (thus European Turkey and the mainland and islands of Greece ), the Ionian Sea (thus southern Albania in Southeastern Europe ), and can extend west to Italy 's farthest south-eastern coasts. Jordan
25-470: The Levant: c. 8000–332 BCE (OHAL; 2013) defines its boundaries, for the specific purposes of the book, as follows. Eastern Mediterranean It typically embraces all of that sea's coastal zones, referring to communities connected with the sea and land greatly climatically influenced. It includes the southern half of Turkey's main region Anatolia , its smaller Hatay Province , the island of Cyprus ,
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