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Canaan or Kn�ʕan (Hebrew כְּנַעַן, Arabic کنعان, Septuagint Greek Χαναάν) is an ancient term for a region roughly corresponding to present-day Israel/Palestine including the West Bank, western Jordan, southern and coastal Syria and Lebanon continuing up to the border of modern Turkey.
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Various Canaanite sites have been excavated by archaeologists, most notably the Canaanite town of Ugarit, which was rediscovered in 1928. Much of the modern knowledge about the Canaanites stems from excavation in this area.
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Canaan is in the Middle East.
The State of Israel is highly diverse in terms of geographies and biomes. The country is wholly bordered on the West by the Mediterranean and to the right the banks of the Jordan River. The South has the great Negev desert, while the its northeast has the high elevations and snow capped mountains of the Golan. Israel also spectacular canyons and badlands outside of Jerusalem, in addition to the Dead Sea and its unique chemistry and buoyancy. To its south the Red Sea port and shores of Eilat have coastal and marine landforms harboring immense biodiversity.
If the term "mother land of Israel" means the land from which the ancient Israelites originated, the biblical answer would be the birthplace of Abraham - Mesopotamia, while the scholarly answer would be Canaan.
Wayne T. Pitard (The Oxford History of the Biblical World, Before Israel) says that during the second millennium BCE, Canaan was the name often used for Palestine (the area west of the Jordan River), whose northern boundary fluctuated between southern and central Lebanon.
However, modern scholars generally use the term in referring to the wider region in Syria-Palestine where a substantial cultural continuum defined as Canaanite can be discerned. Encompassing western Palestine, most of Lebanon, and coastal Syria as far north as Ugarit, this more extensive area was never considered a political or cultural unit by its ancient inhabitants.
The total area of Israel is slightly larger than Massachusetts, and slightly smaller than New Jersey.
Part of the Ottoman Turkish Empire's did. Other parts of it
became Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan.
The land size is about 8,000 sq. miles
Israel's area is 8,019.3 square miles.
Not really. Israel is a meeting point of Africa, Asia and Europe.
In Hebrew, Israel the land is "Israel - ישראל", Israel the people are "Israelim ישראלים" means Israelis.
Israel is considered the Holy Land
Beulah is the land of Israel as described in the Bible and is a symbolic name for Israel, in referring to the restoration of Jerusalem.
one percent water and 99% land
Israel lost land in the 1948 war.
Israel´s history began about 3,000 years ago in the Land of Canaan, which was later called "Eretz Israel" - The Land of Israel- and then, after the Jewish revolt by Bar Kohba,was renamed in "Palestine" by Romans who conquered this land
The land of Canaan is Israel.
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Israel.
It was called the Land of Israel, later divided into the kingdoms of Israel and Judea, but then reunited as Israel.