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Canaan (\/\u02c8ke\u026an\u0259n\/; Northwest Semitic: kna\u02bfn; Phoenician: ???? Ken\u0101\u02bfan; Hebrew: .mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-size:1.15em;font-family:\"Ezra SIL\",\"Ezra SIL SR\",\"Keter Aram Tsova\",\"Taamey Ashkenaz\",\"Taamey David CLM\",\"Taamey Frank CLM\",\"Frank Ruehl CLM\",\"Keter YG\",\"Shofar\",\"David CLM\",\"Hadasim CLM\",\"Simple CLM\",\"Nachlieli\",\"SBL BibLit\",\"SBL Hebrew\",Cardo,Alef,\"Noto Serif Hebrew\",\"Noto Sans Hebrew\",\"David Libre\",David,\"Times New Roman\",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}\u05db\u05b0\u05bc\u05e0\u05b7\u05e2\u05b7\u05df \u2013 K\u0259n\u00e1\u02bfan, in pausa \u05db\u05b0\u05bc\u05e0\u05b8\u05e2\u05b7\u05df \u2013 K\u0259n\u0101\u0301\u02bfan; New Testament Greek: \u03a7\u03b1\u03bd\u03ac\u03b1\u03bd \u2013 Khan\u00e1an; Arabic: \u0643\u0646\u0639\u0627\u0646\u200e, romanized:\u00a0Kena\u2018an) was a Semitic-speaking region and civilization in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC. The name Canaan appears throughout the Bible, where it corresponds to the Levant, in particular to the areas of the Southern Levant that provide the main setting of the narrative of the Bible: Phoenicia, Philistia, Israel, and other nations.\n<\/p>
The word Canaanites serves as an ethnic catch-all term covering various indigenous populations\u2014both settled and nomadic-pastoral groups\u2014throughout the regions of the southern Levant or Canaan.[1] It is by far the most frequently used ethnic term in the Bible.[2] In the Book of Joshua, Canaanites are included in a list of nations to exterminate,[3] and later described as a group which the Israelites had annihilated.[4] Biblical scholar Mark Smith notes that archaeological data suggests \"that the Israelite culture largely overlapped with and derived from Canaanite culture... In short, Israelite culture was largely Canaanite in nature.\"[5]:13\u201314[6][7] The name \"Canaanites\" (\u05db\u05b0\u05bc\u05e0\u05b8\u05e2\u05b7\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9\u05b0\u05dd kena\u2018anim, \u05db\u05b0\u05bc\u05e0\u05b8\u05e2\u05b7\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9 kena\u2018an\u012b) is attested, many centuries later, as the endonym of the people later known to the Ancient Greeks from c.\u00a0500\u00a0BC as Phoenicians,[4] and following the emigration of Canaanite-speakers to Carthage (founded in the 9th century BC), was also used as a self-designation by the Punics (chanani) of North Africa during Late Antiquity.\n<\/p>
Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna period (14th century\u00a0BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni and Assyrian Empires converged. Much of modern knowledge about Canaan stems from archaeological excavation in this area at sites such as Tel Hazor, Tel Megiddo, and Gezer. They also built cities that still stand until nowadays such as Sidon, Acre or Akka, Baalbek, Beirut, Byblos, Latakia, Ashkelon, Tyre, Tartus, Hebron, Jericho, Haifa, Jaffa, Tangier, Tripoli, Palermo, Cagliari, Tangier, Lisbon, Cadiz, Malaga, and Ibiza (town).\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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