Thelevant

بلاد الشام (المشرق) واللغة العربية
レバント      累范特

The Levant refers to states in the region immediately bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea from roughly the Isthmus of Suez to the Taurus Mountains, including present-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and Palestinian territories.

The term Levant comes from the French term lever (to rise) and its Arabic equivalent is al-Mashriq (the country where the sun rises). The introduction of the word came with the French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon (which lasted from 1920 until the mid-1940s).