GOZAN gō’ zăn (גּﯴזָ֖ן, Akkad. guzanu, Ptolemy Γαυζανῖτις). City and region of the upper valley of the Khabur River (Biblical Habor, a tributary of the Euphrates). The capital, modern Tell Halaf, is by the Khabur River where it crosses the border between Syria and Turkey, some 200 m. E of the NE tip of the Mediterranean Sea. The region was conquered by Assyria (2 Kings 19:12; Isa 37:12), and Tiglathpileser III, king of Assyria, transported Israelites from Trans-Jordan to Gozan (1 Chron 5:26). It is also one of the areas to which Israelites were deported after Samaria fell to Assyria in 722 b.c. (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11). Gozan was excavated, beginning in 1911, by Baron Max von Oppenheim, who discovered a new culture with excellent pottery.