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-*SCHOLARLY AND FICTIONAL WORKS: see [[:Category:Dora (subject)]]
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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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 [[Category:Places]]