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AnswerIn biblical times, there was never a single nation-state of Canaan. however, the ancient Greeks thought that the Philistines occupied the entire southern Levant, and so called it Palestine. The northern Levant, corresponding roughly to modern Lebanon and Syria, they called Phoenicia.
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