The Canaanites were the inhabitants of ancient Canaan, a region that roughly corresponds to present-day Israel and Palestine, western Jordan, southern and coastal Syria, Lebanon, and continued up to the southern border of Turkey.

Canaan, area variously defined in historical and biblical literature, but always centred on Palestine. Its original pre-Israelite inhabitants were called Canaanites. The names Canaan and Canaanite occur in cuneiform, Egyptian, and Phoenician writings from about the 15th century bce as well as in the Old Testament.

2018年10月23日 · Canaan was the name of a large and prosperous ancient country (at times independent, at others a tributary to Egypt) located in the Levant region of present-day Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Israel. It...

Canaanites ousted the Hittites, invaders from present-day Turkey; overpowered the Ugarit people on the Syrian coast and drove southward until they stopped Ramasses III, the pharaoh of Egypt. The Canaanites also had encounters with the Hyksos, a people who conquered lower kingdom of Egypt; and the Assyrians.

迦南（天主教譯為客納罕）（英語： Canaan ，希伯來語： כְּנַעַן ‎，腓尼基语： 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 ‬，希臘語： Χαναάν ，阿拉伯语： کنعان ‎）原意为“低”，指地中海東岸的沿海低地，是一个古代地区名称，大致相当于今日以色列、西岸和加沙，加上 ...

2024年12月9日 · Canaan was a region of profound cultural, linguistic, and political importance in the ancient Near East. Occupying a strategic area within the Southern Levant, it played a critical role as an intermediary zone linking multiple great powers and trade networks of antiquity.

These people, the Canaanites, were a Semitic people speaking a language remarkably close to Hebrew. They were farmers, some were nomads, but they were also civilized. They used the great Mesopotamian cities as their model and had built modest imitations of them.

The Land of Canaan (Heb. אֶרֶץ]כְּנַעַן ,כְּנָעַן]]), was promised to the Israelites by God (e.g., Gen. 17:8; Ex. 6:4). The name Canaan first appears in documents from the 15 th century B.C.E. and was variously written: Akkadian: Kinani ( m ), Kinaḫḫu / i , etc.; Egyptian: Kn ʿ n·w and P - kn ʿ n ; Ugaritic: Kn ʿ ny ...

To the authors of the Bible, Canaan is the land which the tribes of Israel conquered after an Exodus from Egypt and the Canaanites are the people they disposed from this land. The Old Testament of the Bible (also known as Tanak) is principally concerned with the religious history of Israel in Canaan.

Canaan , Ancient name for an area of shifting boundaries but centred on Palestine. Coastal Canaanite civilization dates to the Paleolithic Period; towns developed in Neolithic times (c. 7000–4000 bc). The name appears in writings from the 15th century bc.