Sentence examples for levant in from inspiring English sources

Some quick googling shows that Kinglake, an Englishman, traveled to the Levant in the 19th century.

Claude Monet painted his first definitively "Impressionist" canvas – Impression, Soleil Levant – in the Normandy port in 1872.

It is thus possible that the Neanderthals withdrew from the Levant in warmer times while the H. sapiens population advanced northward.

Christie's audaciously reproduced in the catalog entry other views of the sea at Sainte-Adresse, including the world famous "Impression, soleil levant," in the Musée Marmottan in Paris.

Probably originating in the Levant in the 2nd millennium bce, the griffin had spread throughout western Asia and into Greece by the 14th century bce.

When the Crusaders arrived in the Levant in the 11th century, Arab historians were struck by, in the words of one, their "fighting ardor".

Josiah C. Russel states that in this same period there were 2.4 million people in the Levant living in 8,300 villages leaving a population of 230,000-300,000 lining in ten cities, eight of which were Muslim cities under Ayyubid control.

But lace was also made in Spain, Russia, Denmark, Turkey and elsewhere in the Levant, and in South American countries such as Paraguay and Brazil.

The war of 1499 1503 directed against the Venetian empire in the Levant and in the Balkans carried the process of consolidation still further.

It is unclear when the video was made, although its production apparently preceded the advances made by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) in Iraq this week.

The pair, who appeared along with a man from Aberdeen, urge others to join the Isis (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) fight in the country.