LEUZE, a manufacturing town of Belgium, province of Hainault, on the Tourmay and Ath Railroad, 12 miles E. of the former. The town is well built, and its streets are clean. It manufactures cotton stuffs, linen, and hosiers; and has breweries, bleaching and dye works. Pop. (1850), 5842.

LEVANT (Italian Levante, the East), a term originally used by the Venetians and Genoese to designate the coasts of the Mediterranean E. of Italy; but now commonly applied to the coasts of Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt, on the Mediterranean. See Mediterranean.

LEVANTE, a Sardinian province. See Genoa.

LEVANTO, a seaport and fortified town of the kingdom of Sardinia, on the E. shore of the Gulf of Genoa, 12 miles N.W. of Spezia. The town, though dirty, contains several fine edifices, the chief of which is the church consecrated in 1463, and built after the style of the Genoa cathedral. Wine and oil are exported hence in considerable quantities. The former is made at Vernazza, an adjoining village. Pop. 4600.