Northern Levant

Boundaries

In archaeology, the Northern Levant can be defined as the northern section of what in Arabic is called "bilād al-shām, 'the land of sham [Syria]'", in other terms, the northern part of greater Syria (not to be confused with modern-day 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, followed by the Syrian Desert, also known as the Badia region, east of the eastern hinterland of the Anti-Lebanon range (whose southernmost part is Mount Hermon) - in other words, it borders 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

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Bibliography

References

1. Killebrew, Ann E. and Steiner, Margaret L. "Introduction". In Steiner & Killebrew, eds. (2013), pp. 1-5 (see [https://books.google.com/books?id=5H4fAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 2]).
2. Suriano, Matthew J. "Historical geography of the ancient Levant". In Steiner & Killebrew, eds. (2013), pp. 9-23 (see [https://books.google.com/books?id=5H4fAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA9 9-10]).