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'''Dora / Dor''' was an city on the coast of the Mediterranean. | |||
==Overview== | |||
Dor was an ancient Canaanite city. | |||
In the Persian period Dor was a colony of [[Sidon]]. In ca. 460 BCE it was sized by the Athenians as an outpost for their navy in their alliance with the Egyptians against the Persians. | |||
Dora became a Ptolemaic fortress and was besieged by Antiochus VII. Under the Romans, it was granted a semi-autonomous status, which the city kept throughout the reign of Herod and his successors. According to Josephus a synagogue existed there before the destruction of the second Temple. | |||
The city continued to flourish in the Byzantine period as attested by the presence of a church. | |||
==Dora in ancient sources== | |||
*See [[Dora (sources)]] | |||
==Dora in Scholarship== | |||
Dora was first investigated in the 1920s, by [[John Garstang]], on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. | |||
==Dora in Fiction== | |||
==External links== | |||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Dor Wikipedia] | |||
[[Category:Places]] | |||
Revision as of 05:07, 27 September 2011
- SCHOLARLY AND FICTIONAL WORKS: see Category:Dora (subject)
Dora / Dor was an city on the coast of the Mediterranean.
Overview
Dor was an ancient Canaanite city.
In the Persian period Dor was a colony of Sidon. In ca. 460 BCE it was sized by the Athenians as an outpost for their navy in their alliance with the Egyptians against the Persians.
Dora became a Ptolemaic fortress and was besieged by Antiochus VII. Under the Romans, it was granted a semi-autonomous status, which the city kept throughout the reign of Herod and his successors. According to Josephus a synagogue existed there before the destruction of the second Temple.
The city continued to flourish in the Byzantine period as attested by the presence of a church.
Dora in ancient sources
- See Dora (sources)
Dora in Scholarship
Dora was first investigated in the 1920s, by John Garstang, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem.