Levant, Middle East (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"I've been in the Levant, where some of your Middlemarch goods go"

"…Alau the Lord of the Levant"

"The exchange of Venice money for the Bezant or Dinar in the Levant varied a good deal (as is shown by examples in the passage in Cathay just cited), but is always in these examples a large fraction (⅙ up to ⅓) more than the Zecchin."

"The merchants from Manzi, and from Arabia, and from the Levant come thither with their ships and their merchandise."

"Abaga the Lord of the Levant had many districts and provinces bordering on King Caidu’s territories."