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'''Azotus / Ashdod''' was a city close to the Mediterranean coast.
 
==History==
 
Azotus was, like [[Gaza]] and [[Ascalon]], a very ancient and important  settlement of the Philistines. It is often recorded in ancient Jewish sources and was known to [[Herodotus]].
 
Nothing is known of the fate of the city in the early Second Temple Period. Judas attacked it and [[Jonathan Maccabeus]] destroyed it. At the time of [[Alexander Jannaeus]] its territory was annexed to the Hasmonean kingdom.
 
The city regained its autonomy under Pompey, together with the other coastal cities. [[Gabinius]] rebuilt it.
 
Azotus was then annexed to the kingdom of [[Herod the Great]] in 30 BCE, and after his death passed to his sister [[Salome I]].
 
During the [[Jewish War]], [[Vespasian]] established a garrison there.
 
==Azotus in ancient sources==
 
====Josephus, Jewish War====
====Josephus, Jewish Antiquities====
 
==Azotus in Scholarship==
 
==Azotus in Fiction==
 
==Related categories==
 
==References==
 
*'''Azotus''' / [[The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (1973-1987 Schurer / Vermes), book]] / 2 (1979) 108-109
 
*'''Azotus''' / [[Paul L. Redditt]] / In: [[The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992 Freedman), dictionary]], 1:541-542
 
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashdod Wikipedia]
 




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