Description: Promoting research, preservation and education in the heritage, arts and culture of the communities of the Levant region
The Levantine Heritage Foundation (LHF) promotes the research, preservation and education of the heritage, arts and culture of the communities of the Levant region encompassed by the former Ottoman Empire between the 17th and 20th centuries.
The peoples and communities who traded and settled in the area were diverse in origin and faiths, including Venetians, Genoese, Greeks, Turks, Persians, Armenians, Jews, French, Italians, British, many other Europeans and Americans. With the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in 1923, many of the cosmopolitan communities of the Levant region scattered around the globe. The Levantine Heritage Foundation is piecing together these communities’ histories and legacies for future generations to study and build on.
Based in the UK, the LHF has a world-wide network of members and associates. They are a complementary mix of descendants of those communities, who hold family histories, and academic researchers specialising in Ottoman and European politics, trade and social interactions. The private records of families reveal much about the wider history and heritage of the cosmopolitan cities, communities and networks of the Levant.
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