CHALANNE (Hebrew: Kaluēh). — In Gen 10:10, it is the fourth city of the southern tetrapolis of Mesopotamia, which constituted the kingdom of Sennaar (Shinar), founded by Nimrod. According to a gloss in the Septuagint on Is 10:9, it was here that the tower of Babel was built (cf.).
It is uncertain whether it should be identified with Nippur, southeast of Babylon, or with the Sumerian Kal-nun. According to St. Jerome, Eusebius, the Targum, and others, it would have been located northeast of Babylon, where later Ctesiphon arose, called by Pliny (Nat. Hist., VI, 26) the capital of Chalonitis. The Chalane (Hebrew: Kalueh) of Am 6:2 and the Calano (Hebrew: Kaluē) of Is 10:9 may be one and the same as the C. of Genesis, but with greater probability it is thought to refer to the Syrian Kullani of the cuneiform inscriptions, east of Antioch, conquered by Tiglath-Pileser (740 BC).