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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 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 or the Plain of 'Amuq
• To the east: the eastern deserts, i.e. (from north to south) the Euphrates and the Jebel el-Bishrī area for the northern Levant, followed by the Syrian Desert east of the eastern hinterland of the Anti-Lebanon range (whose southernmost part is Mount Hermon), also known as the Badia region. In other words, Mesopotamia and the North Arabian Desert.
• To the south: the Litani River, which marks the boundary towards the Southern Levant.
• To the west: the Mediterranean Sea

Geography

Primeval times (c. 6500 – c. 3500 BCE)

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Stone Age (c. 6500 – c. 5000 BCE)

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Protohistoric times (c. 3500 – c. 3300 BCE)

Copper Age (c. 5000 – c. 3300 BCE)

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Historic times (c. 3300 BCE – Present)

Ancient times (c. 3300 BCE – c. 651 CE)

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Bronze Age (c. 3300 – c. 1200 BCE)

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Late Bronze Age collapse (c. 1200 – c. 1020 BCE)

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Iron Age (c. 1020 – c. 875 BCE)

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Axial Age (c. 875 – c. 212 BCE)

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Classical Age (c. 212 – c. 91 BCE)

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Parthian Dark Age (c. 91 – c. 57 BCE)

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Ancient Age (c. 57 BCE – c. 535 CE)

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Late Antique Little Ice Age (c. 535 CE – c. 547 CE)

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Post-classical Age (c. 547 – c. 630 CE)

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Byzantine Dark Ages (c. 630 – c. 651 CE)

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Medieval times (c. 651 CE – c. 1453 CE)

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Islamic Golden Age (c. 651 – c. 1260 CE)

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Age of Gunpowder (c. 1260 – c. 1453 CE)

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Modern times (c. 1453 – Present)

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Age of Discovery (c. 1453 – c. 1815 CE)

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Age of New Imperialism (c. 1815 – c. 1846 CE)

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Age of Oil (c. 1846 – c. 1880 CE)

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Age of Machines (c. 1880 – c. 1914 CE)

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Age of Extremes (c. 1914 – c. 1945 CE)

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Jet Age (c. 1945 – c. 1957 CE)

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Space Age (c. 1957 – c. 1975 CE)

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Nuclear Age (c. 1975 – c. 1986 CE)

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Information Age (c. 1986 – Present)

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See also

• History of Syria
• History of Lebanon
  • Archaeology of Lebanon

References

Sources

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. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199212972.001.0001. ISBN 9780199212972.

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