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Canaan vs Phoenicia - What's the difference?

canaan | phoenicia |

As proper nouns the difference between canaan and phoenicia

is that canaan is an historic region of the Middle East, roughly equivalent to Palestine while Phoenicia is the land of city states of the Phoenicians which around 1000 BC was situated on the coast of present day Syria and Lebanon, and included the cities of Tyre and Sidon.

canaan

English

(wikipedia Canaan)

Alternative forms

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Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • An historic region of the Middle East, roughly equivalent to Palestine.
  • A grandson of Noah.
  • * :
  • And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
  • (lb) of biblical origin.
  • Derived terms

    * Canaanite

    phoenicia

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Phenicia (nonstandard) * (archaic)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • the land of city states of the Phoenicians which around 1000 BC was situated on the coast of present day Syria and Lebanon, and included the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
  • the trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.
  • Derived terms

    * Phoenician