Thinking objectively, this has given me several ideas to get better evidence for the levantine corridor primacy argument.
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Of or relating to the Levant or its inhabitants; "the Levantine coast"
Levantine may refer to:
Levantines or Franco-Levantines (Arabic: u0634u0648u0627u0645u200Eu200E; French: Levantins; Italian: Levantini; Greek: u03A6u03C1u03B1u03B3u03BAu03BFu03BBu03B5u03B2u03B1u03BDu03C4u03AFu03BDu03BFu03B9 Frankolevantini; Turkish: Levantenler or Tatlu0131su Frenkleri) are Latin Christians who lived under the Ottoman Empire. The term is also applied to their descendants living in modern Levant (Lebanon, Syria) and Turkey.