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Cities of Canaan. Asia portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. A. Ascalon (3 C, 15 P) B. Beit Jala (1 C, 4 P) Beit ...
Canaan [i] [1] [2] was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna Period (14th century BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Assyrian Empires converged or overlapped.
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Tel Kabri is the only Canaanite city that can be excavated in its entirety because no other city with monumental architecture was built on the site after the Middle Bronze city. [12] In 2013, it was estimated that the palace would have occupied 6,100 m 2 (1.5 acres), [ 51 ] and in 2006, it was estimated that the ancient city as a whole would ...
'the heap (of ruins)'; Douay–Rheims: Hai) was a city in Canaan, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. According to the Book of Joshua, it was conquered by the Israelites, headed by Joshua, during their conquest of Canaan. [1] The Ai's ruins are commonly thought to be in the modern-day archeological site of Et-Tell.
Luz is the ancient name of a royal Canaanite city, connected with Bethel (Genesis 28:19; 35:6). It is debated among scholars [1] whether Luz and Bethel represent the same town - the former the Canaanite name, and the latter the Hebrew name - or whether they were distinct places in close proximity to each other.
Lachish (Hebrew: לכיש, romanized: Lāḵîš; Koinē Greek: Λαχίς; Latin: Lachis) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite city in the Shephelah ("lowlands of Judea") region of Canaan on the south bank of the Lakhish River mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible.
By the Iron Age, [24] Adullam is referred to in the Hebrew Bible as being one of the royal cities of the Canaanites, [25] and is listed along with the cities Jarmuth and Socho as occupying a place in the region geographically known as the Shefelah, [26] or what is a place of transition between the mountainous region and the coastal plains.