The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company. "The countries bordering on the eastern Mediterranean Sea from Turkey to Egypt."
Random House Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2009. "The lands bordering the E shores of the Mediterranean Sea."
Harris, William W. (2005) The Levant: a fractured mosaic, Markus Wiener, Second Edition, map p. 4, quote p. 1. "The Mediterranean littoral between the mountains of Cilicia and the Sinai peninsula."
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