{"id":907,"date":"2023-06-18T13:09:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T07:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=907"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:20:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:50:15","slug":"q-the-term-levant-often-heard-in-the-news-roughly-corresponds-to-which-of-the-following-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-the-term-levant-often-heard-in-the-news-roughly-corresponds-to-which-of-the-following-regions","title":{"rendered":"Q. The term \u201cLevant\u201d often heard in the news roughly corresponds to which of the following regions?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>Region along the eastern Mediterranean shores<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Region along North African shores stretching from Egypt to Morocco<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Region along Persian Gulf and Horn of Africa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The entire coastal Mediterranean Sea of areas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (a) Region along the eastern Mediterranean shores<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Levant<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>It is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is equivalent to a stretch of land bordering the&nbsp;<strong>Mediterranean in southwestern Asia, i.e. the historical region of Syria (\u201cgreater Syria\u201d), which includes present-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine and most of Turkey southwest of the middle Euphrates.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Its overwhelming characteristic is that it represents the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Levant has been described as the crossroads of western Asia, the eastern Mediterranean and northeast Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The name Levant States was given to the&nbsp;<strong>French&nbsp;mandate&nbsp;of Syria and&nbsp;Lebanon&nbsp;after&nbsp;World War I<\/strong>, and the term is sometimes still used for those two countries, which became independent in 1946. A similar term,&nbsp;Al-Mashriq&nbsp;(\u201cWhere the Sun Rises\u201d), exists in&nbsp;Arabic, although this term refers to a broader geographic region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Levant-1024x1024.webp\" alt=\"Levant\" class=\"wp-image-40521\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_e2b5bf-9b .kt-block-spacer{height:40px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_e2b5bf-9b .kt-divider{border-top-width:2px;border-top-color:#eee;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_e2b5bf-9b\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (a) Region along the eastern Mediterranean shores Levant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[37],"years":[51],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-geography","years-51"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":37,"label":"Geography"}],"years":[{"value":51,"label":"2022"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":37,"name":"Geography","slug":"geography","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":37,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}