Canaan (isr)

Canaan

Canaan ranks 2,556th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Wales, Lugdunum, and Gyeongbokgung. Memorable people born in Canaan include Jacob, Isaac, and Saint Christopher. Memorable people who died in Canaan include Abraham, Isaac, and Joshua. Canaan has been the birth place of many religious figures, and politicians and the death place of many religious figures, and politicians. Canaan is located in Israel.

Canaan 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 as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Assyrian Empires converged or overlapped. Much of present-day knowledge about Canaan stems from archaeological excavation in this area at sites such as Tel Hazor, Tel Megiddo, En Esur, and Gezer. Read more on Wikipedia