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Ascalon

Ascalon or Ashkelon was an ancient Near East port city on the Mediterranean coast of the southern Levant of high historical and archaeological significance. Its remains are located in the archaeological site of Tel Ashkelon, within the city limits of the modern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Traces of settlement exist from the 3rd millennium BCE, with…

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Location
Southern District, Israel
Abandoned
1270 CE
Archaeologists
Lady Hester Stanhope, John Garstang, W. J. Phythian-Adams, Lawrence Stager, Daniel Master
Built
c. 2000 BCE
Cultures
Canaanite, Philistine, Phoenician, Crusaders
Excavation dates
1815, 1920–1922, 1985–2016

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Neolithic and Chalcolithic Ages

Bronze Age

Iron Age

Classical Age

Hellenistic period (332–37 BCE)

Roman period (63 BCE – 4th century CE)

Byzantine period (4th century – 641 CE)

Early Islamic period (641–1099)

Crusader period (1099–1270)

Mamluk Sultanate (1270-1517), the end of Ascalon and beginning of Majdal Asqalan

Ottoman period (1516–1917)

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Ascalon

Nodes428
Edges427
Triples534
Avg. degree2
Density0.004673
Components1

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Ascalon

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related to Crusader recapture (1229–1247) · 42
Ascalon → After, Afterwards, And, April, As-Salih Ayyub, Ascalon's, Ayyubid, Ayyubids, Barons' Crusade, Baybars, Burgundy, Cornwall, Crusader, Crusaders, Damascus, Din, Duke, During Sultan As-Salih Ayyub's, Egypt, Egyptian
related to Byzantine period (4th century – 641 CE) · 41
Ascalon → Ambrose, Antioch, April, Archaeological, Auxentius, Be, Bishop Dionysius, CE, Chalcedon, Christian, Christianity, Christianization, Christians, Constantinople, Council, Despite, Diocletianic Persecution, Egyptian Christians, Ephesus, Epiphanius
related to Early Islamic period (641–1099) · 41
Ascalon → Abd, Abd Allah, Al-Baladhuri, Amr, Arabic, As, Askalan, Asqalan, Bride, By, Byzantine, Byzantines, Caesarea, Caliph Sulayman, Despite, During, Egypt, Filastin, From, Hamawi
related to Roman period (63 BCE – 4th century CE) · 39
Ascalon → Alexandria, Anjar, Antigonus II Mattathias, Aristobolus II, Aristobulus II, BCE, Bosporus, By, Caesar's, Chalchis, During, Empire, Following Caesar's, Great, Hasmonean, Hasmonean Kingdom, Hellenistic, Herod, His, In
related to Mamluk Sultanate (1270-1517), the end of Ascalon and beginning of Majdal Asqalan · 36
Ascalon → Abulfeda, Ar Ramlah, As, Askalan, Asqalan, Asqalān, At, Baybars, Between, Crusader, Damascus, Dimashqi, Filastin, Franks, Friday, Gaza, Ghazzah, Husayn's Head, Islam, It
related to Ptolemaic rule (301–198 BCE) · 32
Ascalon → According, Acre, Antiquities, Apollonius, Archaeological, Aristeas, Ascalon's, BCE, Few, Gaza, In, Jaffa, Jewish, Jews, Joseph, Josephus, Kaunos, Letter, Levant, Ptolemaic
related to Archaeology · 31
Ascalon → Ascalon's, BCE, Beginning, Between, By, Canaanite, From, Harvard University, IAA, In, Israel Antiquities Authority, It, John Garstang, Lady Hester Stanhope, Late Bronze Age II, Lawrence Stager, Leon Levy Expedition, Modern, No, Ottoman Museum
related to Ayyubid destruction and Third Crusade (1187–1191) · 30
Ascalon → Alexandria, Athir, Ayyubid, Battle, Christian, Crusader States, Europe, Fatimid, Hattin, He, Ibn, In, Islamic, Jerusalem, Jews, Karaites, King Guy, Lusignan, Rabbanites, Ridefort
related to Crusader period (1099–1270) · 30
Ascalon → After, Alexandria, August, Crusader, Crusader States, Crusaders, Crusades, During, Egypt, Fatimid, Fatimids, First Crusade, In August, It, Jerusalem, Jerusalem's, Jewish, Jews, July, Karaite
related to Names · 28
Ascalon → Achziv, Akhenaten, Amarna, Arabic, Ashdod, Asqaluni, Asqalānu, Ašqaluna, BCE, Canaan, Canaanite, Canaanitic, Carried, Central Semitic, Egypt, Execration, Hebrew Bible, It, Kadesh, King Yidya

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bce city ashkelon egypt fatimid period time one jerusalem egyptian century gaza cities crusader king ptolemaic bronze ii early rule

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
AscalonAbandoned1270 CE1.00infobox
AscalonArchaeologistsLady Hester Stanhope, John Garstang, W. J. Phythian-Adams, Lawrence Stager, Daniel Master1.00infobox
AscalonBuiltc. 2000 BCE1.00infobox
AscalonCulturesCanaanite, Philistine, Phoenician, Crusaders1.00infobox
AscalonExcavation dates1815, 1920–1922, 1985–20161.00infobox
AscalonLocationSouthern District, Israel1.00infobox
AscalonPeriodsBronze Age to Crusades1.00infobox
AscalonRegionSouthern Levant, Middle East1.00infobox
AscalonTypeSettlement1.00infobox
Ascalonis adesignated archaeological area known as Tel Ashkelon0.90text
Ascalonis aname to conjure with0.90text
the Shrine of Husayn's Head survivedinstance ofthough structures0.80text

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