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Tell Halaf

Also known as Guzana, Gozan

Tell Halaf is an archaeological site in north-eastern Syria, near Ras al-Ayn on the Turkish border. It gave its name to the Halaf culture of the 6th millennium BCE, known for its painted pottery. In the early 1st millennium BCE it was Guzana, capital of the Aramaean kingdom of Bit-Bahiani and later an Assyrian province, the biblical Gozan.

Tell Halaf
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Tell Halaf. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tell-halaf
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