lies on the Western Edge of the Asian Continent and Eastern extremity of The - Mediterranean Sea . It is bounded on the north by Labanon and Syria to the west by The Mediterranean Sea ; to the south by Gulf Of Aqaba andthe Egyptian Sinai Peninsula ; to the east by Jordan . The Historic Total Land area of Palestine is 26,323 sq kilometre (10,162 sq miles ) .
Palestine is one of the most ancient HomeLands of Human Kind . There are many evidences that Palestine was inhabited almost Two Hundred Thousnd Years Ago
With The Beginning of Middle Stone Age ( Mesolithic Period ) circa 12,000 B.C. , Humans in Palestine began to farm and produce handcrafts .
Around 7,000 B.C. , Jericho became the first place in Palestine where Humans built Dwellings for themselves and also built a ten meter high Wall surround The City . Thus Jericho is considered to be The Oldest continuously inhabited city on Earth . Farming and Animal Breeding began there and stability characterized the area for more than a thousand years before The Mesopotamia - Somer in Iraq .
In several Palestinian cities , numerous artifacts from The Metallic Stone Age (c.4000 B.C. ) were found , including the city of Magiddo , where the oldest types of decorated Pottery were discovered . In Beisan , Excavations in 1921 / 1922 at 'Tel Al-Hesn' led to the discovery of an accomulated series of ruins of ancient cities , Mounting to 18 Layers , with the lower layers dating back to 4,000 B.C.
Around 5,000 B.C. , The first wave of Semitic migrations began .By the end of the - Fourth Millennium B.C. and the beginning of The Third Millennium B.C. , Semites had left the desert towards Iraq . The Akkadians settled in The South and The Assyrians in The North . The Semites are one of the three lineages of which the white race in today's world is traced back to , and The Arabian Peninsula is considered The Original Homeland of The Semitic Race .
While already inhabited before recorded history , Palestine was subjected to large influx of Semites from The Arabian Peninsula in the biginning of The 3rd Millennium This was known as' The Amorite Canaanite ' , which increased around 2,500 B.C. , when They migrated to Greater Syria ; to Its Southeastern Parts ( Transjordan ) and to Southwestern Parts ( Palestine ) . As such , The Country was named after Them : The Land of Canaan .
The Jebusites , One of The Canaanite Tribes , built the city of Jebus around 2,000 B.C. , which is The Canaanite Arab name for Jerusalem . The City was built on
Al-Nabi Daoud Mountain - Very recent excavations showed that the city was built around 3,000 B.C. , which is more than 2,000 years before the building of .............
The Temple .
The Prophet Abraham ( P.B.U.H. ) was an Amorite , living in UR in Babylon ( Iraq ) , emigrated around 1,805 B.C. and setteled in HARAN ( Syria ) and later in BEERSHEBA AREA - The Land Of Canaan .. He married his second wife HAJAR from Egypt and around 1794 had ISMAEL ( P.B.U.H. ) , in the southwest of ASLUGE . He is - The Grandfather of The Adnanian Arabs - Adnan was one of His Grandsons , from whom The Prophet Mohammad ( P.B.U.H. ) is Descended . Around the year 1780 B.C. , ABRAHAM had His second son ISAAC , from His Wife Sara .
ISAAC lived in the extreme southern part of The Land of Canaan where His son JACOB was born and given the name ISRAEL . Years later He went to HARAN and married Rebekah and Rachel , who gave birth to 12 male children , all born in Syria except Benjamin who was born on the road of BETHLEHEM . Jacob later went to Egypt around 1656 B.C.
Around 1675 B.C. , The Hyksos invaded Egypt , They were most probably Semites who included The Canaanites and The Amorites . Ahmos ( 1580-1557 B.C. ) was able to expel The Hyksos from Egypt and chased them to Palestine & Syria .
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