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An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula leaves up to 20,000 dead.
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1068 Near East earthquake
Series of earthquakes in the Arabian Peninsula and Palestine
Two major earthquakes occurred in the Near East on 18 March and 29 May, AD 1068. The two earthquakes are often amalgamated by contemporary sources. The first earthquake had its epicentre somewhere in the northwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula around Tabuk, while the second…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Levant
Region in the Eastern Mediterranean
The Levant is a subregion of West Asia that borders the Eastern Mediterranean sea to the west and forms the core of the Middle East. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is equivalent to Cyprus and a stretch of land…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Arabian Peninsula
Peninsula in West Asia
The Arabian Peninsula, or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated north-east of Africa on the Arabian plate. At 3,237,500 km2 (1.25 million sq mi), comparable in size to India, the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)