LEVANTINE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Levantine

... increasing trade; and the three routes along which the products of the East were brought to those who were able to pay for them were never, during the Middle Ages, entirely closed. They found their western termini in a long line of Levantine cities extending along the shores of the Black Sea and of the eastern Mediterranean from Tana in the north to Alexandria in the south. In these cities the spices, drugs, dyes, perfumes, precious stones, silks, rugs, metal goods, and other fabrics and materials produced in far Eastern ...

— European Background Of American History - (Vol. I of The American Nation: A History) • Edward Potts Cheyney

... Genoese colonies continued to exist, they stood at a great disadvantage, where their rivals were so predominant and enjoyed exemption from duties, to which the Genoese remained subject. Hence jealousies and resentments reached a climax in the Levantine settlements, and this colonial exacerbation reacted ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa