Khor

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Khor (also Hurru, Kharu) is the second, later name used by ancient Egyptians after using Retjenu in designating the wider Syrian region, where speakers of Canaanite languages lived.<ref name=When>Template:Cite book</ref> It was long an outpost of ancient Egypt and is explicitly mentioned in the Great Hymn to the Aten as a geographic region, along with the kingdoms of Kush and Egypt. Based on the Amarna letters, it is plausible that Khor is a Middle Egyptian reference to Canaan.

This word spelled as Hurru or Kharru is also used on the Merneptah Stele. In this inscription, Template:Quote

Taharqa, Tarqo of Kush and pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, claimed to conquer this territory as attested by the "list of conquered Asiatic principalities" from the Mut temple at Karnak, as well as in Sanam temple inscriptions.<ref name=Torok>Template:Cite book</ref> Taharqa disputed this region with Sennacherib of Assyria.

The Egyption Story of Wenamun refers to a location named Kharu. According to Alessandra Nibbi, the expression "the great ym of Kharu" is often connected to the Mediterranean sea. But she was trying to reinterpret this and other associated geographical names and to tie them to other locations.<ref>A. Nibbi, The City of Dor and Wenamun, Discussions in Egyptology 35 (1996), 76-95</ref>