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(Arabic Ġazza, Hebrew Azzā, from Semitic ǧzz, ‘being thorny’). From Thutmosis III (1457 BC) to Ramses IV (mid 12th cent. BC) an Egyptian administrative centre in southern Palestine [1], under the Ramessids ‘the town of Canaan’, short ‘Canaan’ (Κάδυτις, Hdt. 2,159; 3,5); under Ramses II also the ‘town of Ramses in Canaan’. Taken over in the 12th cent. BC by the Philis…