Archaeologists have identified a gradual increase in the presence of small settlements in the mountainous Canaanite hinterland from around 1250 BCE. The settlements were at first more numerous in the somewhat more fertile northern area, gradually spreading south into the area that would become Judah, around Jerusalem. As far as can be established, these new arrivals were the Hebrew people, although a minority of scholars point to population changes shortly before 1000 BCE and believe that this period marks the arrival of the Hebrews.
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Just to make the above a little clearer, the region in reference is the Region of Palestine or the Land of Israel (both are names of the same general region). In antiquity, it was called Canaan.
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Between Iraq and the Mediterranean Sea there are a number of countries. Both Turkey and Syria border Iraq and the Mediterranean. Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine are on the direct flight route from Iraq to the Mediterranean Sea.
Middle east, beside the Mediterranean Sea, near Syria, Jordan, Palestine (israel) ....
Mediterranean cuisine is a cheap copycat version of middle eastern food
Jordan and Lebanon are the two countries in the Middle East that are almost entirely landlocked, with only small coastlines along the Mediterranean Sea.
Arabs are semitic people who live in most of the countries of the Middle East. Hebrews were the ancestors of today's Jews.
The Mediterranean Sea is between Europe and the middle east.
Syria is bounded by the Mediterranean and Lebanon on the west, by Jordan on the south, by Iraq on the east and by Turkey on the north. The frontier between Syria and Turkey was settled by the Franco-Turkish agreement of 22 June 1929.xcool77
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Jericho is located in the West Bank, in the Palestinian Territories, which is in the Middle East. It is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world and sits in the Jordan Valley near the Jordan River.
Israel is a country located in the Middle East, surrounded by the nations of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt. It is also bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the west.
The Arabian Peninsula is located in the Middle East, between the Mediterranean and Arabian Seas.