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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]




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