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    an ancient Levantine metropolis situated at Tel Ashdod, 'Mound of Ashdod', an archaeological site located a few kilometers south of the modern Ashdod in...
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    city and later settlements are located at Tel Ashdod. Modern Ashdod was established in 1956 on the sand hills, 6 kilometers northwest of the ancient site...
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    city of Ashdod, and about 5 kilometres northwest of the ancient site of Tel Ashdod, where ancient Ashdod stood in the time of the Philistines. Ashdod-Yam...
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    The Fall of Ashdod was the successful Egyptian assault on the city of Ashdod, one of the five cities of the famed Philistine pentapolis, located in southwestern...
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  • Look up Ashdod in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ashdod is an ancient Levantine city name today used by the Israeli city of Ashdod. Ashdod can also refer...
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    Tel Ashdod, remains of the ancient town, lies east of the modern city. Tel Be'er Sheva, remains of the ancient town, lies east of the modern city. Official...
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    The Plague of Ashdod is also known as The Miracle of the Ark in the Temple of Dagon, by the French artist Nicolas Poussin. The painting represents a story...
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    see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle...
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    Isdud (category Ashdod)
    between al-Ramla and Gaza, and equally as a continuation of the ancient city of Ashdod. The village is documented as being well established from at least...
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    Ascalon (redirect from Ancient ascalon)
    Ashkelon became one of the five cities of the Philistine pentapolis, alongside Ashdod, Ekron, Gath, and Gaza. The city was later destroyed by the Babylonians...
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    Tyre, Lebanon (redirect from Ancient tyre)
    Cadmus and Phoenix, as well as Carthage's founder Dido (Elissa). The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to...
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    the ancient Philistine Pentapolis (along with Gaza, Ekron, Ashkelon, and Ashdod). It is a large multi-period site that is located in central Israel, approximately...
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    Philistines (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    archaeological artifacts from the five ancient Philistine city-states Archaeological sites: Archaeology in Gaza Ashdod-Yam Ashkelon National Park "Lords"...
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    Neo-Assyrian sources p.312: The four city-states of the late Philistine period (Iron Age II) are Amqarrūna (Ekron), Asdūdu (Ashdod), Hāzat (Gaza), and Isqalūna...
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    housing increased dramatically, with new cities such as Modiin and El'ad being built, and cities like Ashdod more than doubling in population, from 83...
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    Canaan (redirect from Ancient Canaan)
    Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC. Canaan had significant geopolitical...
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    Ekron (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Mitinti, king of Ashdod, [and to] Padi, king of Ekron, [and to] Silli-bel, king of Gaza, I gave. And (thus) I diminished his land. Ashdod and Ekron survived...
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    גַּן-יַבְנֶה) is a town in central Israel, located adjacent to the city of Ashdod. Gan Yavne was founded in 1931 and achieved local council status in...
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    Phoenicia (redirect from Ancient Phoenicia)
    were organized in city-states, similar to those of ancient Greece, of which the most notable were Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos. Each city-state was politically...
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  • the city. Glenn Markoe (2000). Phoenicians. University of California Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-520-22614-2. Gates, Charles (2011). Ancient cities: the...
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    Bible, Dagan was also the national god of the Philistines, with temples at Ashdod and Gaza, but there is no extrabiblical evidence confirming this. The extrasolar...
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    from Hazor within the tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:23), after which Hatzor Ashdod was named. Israel Finkelstein, The Bible Unearthed "However, the correlation...
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    Philistia (category Ancient Near East)
    a confederation of five main cities or pentapolis in the Southwest Levant, made up of principally Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gath, and for a time...
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  • Arameans (redirect from Ancient Arameans)
    𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀; Hebrew: אֲרַמִּים; Ancient Greek: Ἀραμαῖοι; Classical Syriac: ܐܪ̈ܡܝܐ, romanized: Ārāmāyē), were an ancient Semitic-speaking people in the...
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    Damascus (redirect from City of Jasmin)
    The Christian districts in the city are Bab Tuma, Qassaa and Ghassani. Each have many churches, most notably the ancient Chapel of Saint Paul and St Georges...
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    Gerald M. Steinberg, Jordan ransacked 57 ancient synagogues, libraries and centers of religious study in the Old City Of Jerusalem, 12 were totally and deliberately...
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    control over the zone, since it stands near Tel Ashdod [he] - location of an ancient Philistine city of Ashdod. Mivza - Re'em industrial zone - a small industry...
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    Late Bronze Age collapse (category Ancient Near East)
    Tweini, Byblos, Tyre, Sidon, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beth-Shean, Tell Dier Alla, and many more." Ann Killebrew has shown that cities such as Jerusalem were large...
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    Judahites were exiled to Babylon. Judah and the Philistine city-states of Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, and Ekron, were dissolved and incorporated into the Neo-Babylonian...
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  • Assyrian city Archevite Armenia – Indo-European kingdom of eastern Asia Minor and southern Caucasus. Arrapkha – Assyrian city, modern Kirkuk Ashdod Ashkelon...
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