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ID: 7001373
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001373
Record Type:
administrative
Ashdod (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 31 48 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 31.8000
decimal degrees
Long: 034 38 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 34.6333
decimal degrees
Note:
A city 7 km NNW of ruined settlement with same name; is S Israel's only outlet to Mediterranean Sea; chief exporter of country's citrus crops; has large synthetic textile plants; has oil refinery & one of Israel's major power plants.
Names:
Ashdod
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
Asdud
(
C
,
V
)
Isdud
(
C
,
O
)
אשדוד
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Israel
(nation) (
P
)
............
Southern District
(national district) (
P
)
................
Ashdod
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1956
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....
Ashdod
.......... (deserted settlement)
..............................
(World, Asia, Israel, Southern District) [6000548]
Sources and Contributors:
אשדוד..........
[
IMJ
]
..............
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Asdud..........
[
VP
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 52
Ashdod..........
[
BHA
,
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Baedekers: Israel (1983)
.................
Cambridge Encyclopedia (1990)
.................
Carta's Official Guide to Israel (1983)
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
I, 623
.................
Excavations in Holy Land (1975)
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
16
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
81
Isdud..........
[
BHA
]
..............
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Baedekers: Israel (1983)
..................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................
Cambridge Encyclopedia (1990)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 52
..................
Carta's Official Guide to Israel (1983)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
I, 623
..................
Excavations in Holy Land (1975)
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
16
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
81
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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