LEUZE, a city of the Netherlands, in the province of Hennegau, and arrondissement of Tournay. It is situated on the river Dender, about six miles from its source, contains 4500 inhabitants, and has a considerable trade in linen. Long. 3. 33. E. Lat. 50. 34. N.

LEVANISO, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, near the western extremity of Sicily, four miles from Favignana. It is the Phorbantia of antiquity. It is nearly six miles in circumference, lofty, rugged, and, excepting at two or three places, inaccessible. It is inhabited, and furnishes corn, wine, oil, and cotton, and faggots and firewood, to the cities of Marsala and Trapani. Long. 12. 20. 29. E. Lat. 38. 1. 36. N.

LEVANT, in Geography, signifies any country situated to the eastward of us, or in the eastern part of any continent or country, or in that quarter where the sun rises.

Levant is also a name given to the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, bounded by Anatolia or Asia Minor on the north, by Syria and Palestine on the east, by Egypt and Barca on the south, and by the island of Candia and the rest of the Mediterranean on the west.