Dora
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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
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Dora in Scholarship
Dora was first investigated in the 1920s, by John Garstang, on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem.