First international Levantine Conference : “The Levantines : Commerce and Diplomacy” — Istanbul (Turquie), 03-05/11/2014

Levantine Heritage is an informal, non-political research group and discussion forum for people interested in the heritage of the communities of the former Ottoman Empire. It comprises both academic researchers and descendants of those communities. We use the term ‘Levantine’ to describe the people of Western European origin, whose long term domicile was in the Eastern Mediterranean, within the former boundaries of the Ottoman Empire. Our research is on every aspect of their culture, includin..