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ID: 1079507
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1079507
Record Type:
administrative
Dor (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 32 37 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 32.6167
decimal degrees
Long: 034 55 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 34.9167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Mediterranean coast; was noted Canaanite port in ancient Palestine; marked S limit of Phoenician rule; was kingdom at time of judges of Israel (ca. 1200-1000 BC); rebuilt by Romans; fortified by Crusaders.
Names:
Dor
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Tantura
(
C
,
O
)
Tanturah
(
C
,
V
)
Tantūra
(
C
,
V
)
Dora
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient name
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Israel
(nation) (
P
)
............
Haifa
(national district) (
P
)
................
Dor
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was a very ancient settlement; Israelis settled here in 1948, on the site of a Palestinian village
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Dor..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
57
Dora..........
[
VP
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 249-250
Tantura..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
340
Tantūra..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 1 August 2005
Tanturah..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 1 August 2005
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 249-250
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 1 August 2005
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
57
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
340
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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