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History of the Southern Levant
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “account of events in palestine from ancient times to the present”. Today it says “redirect from a subtopic of the target article or section”.
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The opening as it read in 2010
The Levant is defined as the geographical region bordering the Mediterranean, roughly between Egypt and Anatolia (modern Turkey). The southern Levant is therefore roughly the same area as that occupied by the modern states of Israel (including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and Jordan. These terms are used by archaeologists, to avoid taking a modern geo-political stance in a region rife with border disputes.1
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Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “account of events in palestine from ancient times to the present”. Today it says “redirect from a subtopic of the target article or section”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
account of events in palestine from ancient times to the present
Now
redirect from a subtopic of the target article or section
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