Ashdod

Ashdod is the sixth-largest city and the largest port in Israel accounting for 60% of the country's imported goods. Ashdod is placed within the Southern District of the united states of america, on the Mediterranean coast where it's far located among Tel Aviv to the North 32 kilometres and Ashkelon to the South. Jerusalem is 53 km to the east. The town is likewise an crucial local industrial middle.

Modern Ashdod covers the territory of two historic twin cities, one inland and one on the coast, which have been for most of their records separate entities, related by close ties with every other. This article offers with these historical towns, which include different historic nearby web sites, and current Ashdod. The first documented urban settlement at Ashdod dates to the Canaanite subculture of the 17th century BCE, making the metropolis one of the oldest within the world. Ashdod is referred to 13 instances inside the Bible. During its pre-1956 records the city was settled by way of Philistines, Israelites, Greek colonists coming in the wake of Alexander's conquests, Romans and Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, and Ottoman Turks.