CANAAN
Canaan
Canaan was a Semitic-speaking region in the Ancient Near East, roughly corresponding to the Levant, i.e. modern-day Lebanon, Israel, Palestinian territories, the western part of Jordan and southwestern Syria. Canaan was of significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna period as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, and Assyrian Empires converged. Canaan is historically attested throughout the 4th millennium BC; the later Amarna Letters use ', while other sources of the Egyptian New Kingdom mention numerous military campaigns conducted in . In modern usage, the name is often associated with the Hebrew ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Canaan
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