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  2. Canaan - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Land of Israel - Wikipedia

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    This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Part of a series on the History of Israel Early history Prehistoric Levant Kebaran Mushabian Natufian Harifian Yarmukian Lodian Nizzanim Ghassulian Canaan Retjenu Habiru Shasu Late Bronze Age collapse Ancient Israel and Judah Iron Age I Israelites, Philistines 12th–10th centuries BCE United ...

  4. Canaan (son of Ham) - Wikipedia

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    Canaan (Hebrew: כְּנַעַן – Kənáʿan, in pausa כְּנָעַן ‎ – Kənā́ʿan), according to the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, was a son of Ham and grandson of Noah, as well as the father of the Canaanites.

  5. Harran (biblical place) - Wikipedia

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    Location of Haran and other associated Biblical/Torah sites Haran is usually identified with Harran , now a village of Şanlıurfa , Turkey . Since the 1950s, archeological excavations of Harran have been conducted, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] which have yielded insufficient discoveries about the site's pre-medieval history [ 3 ] or of its supposed patriarchal ...

  6. History of Israel - Wikipedia

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    This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (February 2025) Visual History of Israel by Arthur Szyk, 1948 Part of a series on the History of ...

  7. List of biblical places - Wikipedia

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    The locations, lands, and nations mentioned in the Bible are not all listed here. Some locations might appear twice, each time under a different name. Only places having their own Wikipedia articles are included. See also the list of minor biblical places for locations which do not have their own Wikipedia article.

  8. Moab - Wikipedia

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    Moab [a] (/ ˈ m oʊ æ b /) was an ancient Levantine kingdom whose territory is today located in southern Jordan.The land is mountainous and lies alongside much of the eastern shore of the Dead Sea.

  9. Jebusites - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew Bible contains the only surviving ancient text known to use the term Jebusite to describe the inhabitants of Jerusalem; according to the Generations of Noah , the Jebusites are identified as Canaanites, listed in third place among the Canaanite groups between the biblical Hittites and the Amorites.