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Levant

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the eastern part of the Mediterranean sea, including the islands and neighboring countries. Basically the region centered around Israel.

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Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended by my good master, Mr. Bates, to be surgeon to the "Swallow," Captain Abraham Pannell, commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and some other parts. When I came back I resolved to settle in London; to which Mr. Bates, my master, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended to several patients.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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“An English hero of the road would be the next best thing to an Italian bandit; and that could only be surpassed by a Levantine pirate.”

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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