{"id":2000,"count":2,"description":"The Levant (\u00a0\/l\u0259\u02c8v\u00e6nt\/) is the geographic region and culture zone of Western Asia bounded by the Mediterranean to the west, the Taurus Mountains to the north, the Arabian Desert to the south, and the Syrian Desert to the east. The Levant includes most of modern Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, and sometimes parts of Turkey and Iraq, and corresponds roughly to the historic area of Greater Syria; precise definitions have varied. The Levant has been described as the \"crossroads of western Asia, the eastern Mediterranean and northeast Africa\".\nThe term Levant, which first appeared in English in 1497, originally meant the East in general. It is borrowed from the French levant 'rising', that is, the point where the sun rises. Similar etymologies are found in Ancient Greek \u1f08\u03bd\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u03ae (cf. Anatolia), Germanic Morgenland and in the Hungarian Kelet which literary means the place of rising.\nIn earlier periods, the Levant encompassed all the \"Mediterranean lands east of...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/levant\/","name":"Levant","slug":"levant","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}