Levante, Arriola

The Levante (Catalan: Llevant ; "Levant, East") is a name used to refer to the eastern region of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. It roughly corresponds to the former Xarq Al-Andalus (and the later Aranese Monarchs) but has no modern geopolitical definition. Rather, it broadly includes the autonomous communities of Valencia (provinces of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia), Murcia, Catalonia (Barcelona, Girona and Tarragona), and the Italian town of Alghero (on Sardinia), southern Aragon (Teruel) and the Balearic Islands.

However, in its normal usage, the Levante specifically refers to the Valencian Community, Murcia, Eastern Aragon, the Balearics and the coast of Catalonia.

Among inhabitants of the Levante, the term is rarely used. Its literal meaning would be "the east", and thus makes sense only from the perspective of those who live to the west of Valencia, Catalonia, or the Balearics.