Levant

le-vant', a term applied originally by the Italians to countries lying to the eastward of them or toward the sunrise, and more specifically to Asia Minor and Syria. It is a convenient name by which to designate the coast region and the islands of the eastern Mediterranean. The Venetian sailor calls an east wind a levanter. Levant morocco is a superior kind of leather prepared originally in the Levant from the skin of the Angora goat.