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.

Dor 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

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

• Wikipedia