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gō´zan (גּוזן, goÌ„zaÌ„n; ΓωζαÌν, GoÌ„zaÌn, Codex Vaticanus, GoÌ„zaÌr in , ChoÌ„zaÌr in ): A place in Assyria to which Israelites were deported on the fall of Samaria (; ; ). It is also mentioned in a letter of Sennacherib to Hezekiah (; ). The district is that named Guzana by the Assyrians, and Gauzanitis by Ptolemy, West of Nisibis, with which, in the Assyrian geographical list (WAI, II, 53, l. 43), it is mentioned as the name of a city (aÌ‚lu Guzana; aÌ‚lu Nasibina). It became an Assyrian province, and rebelled in 759 bc, but was again reduced to subjection. See HABOR; HALAH.