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Majdal (other)
Majdal (, meaning "tower") may refer to: Israel and Palestine * al-Majdal or al-Majdal Asqalan, a Palestinian village depopulated in 1951, now part of Ashkelon in Israel * al-Majdal, Tiberias, a Palestinian village depopulated in 1948, now in Israel, thought to be the site of ancient Magdala * Khirbat al-Majdal, a Palestinian village depopulated in 1948, now in Israel * al-Majdal, a Palestinian village in Haifa Subdistrict depopulated in 1925, now part of Ramat Yohanan in Israel * Al-Mujaydil, a Palestinian village depopulated in 1948, now in Israel * Majd al-Krum, a town in northern Israel * Majdal Yaba, a Palestinian village depopulated in 1948, now in Israel * Magdala, ancient Jewish city identified with al-Majdal, near Tiberias * Majdal Bani Fadil, a modern Palestinian village in the West Bank Syria * al-Majdal, Syria, a village in the Hama Governorate of Syria * Majdal Shams Majdal Shams (; ) is a predominantly Druze town in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashkelon
Ashkelon ( ; , ; ) or Ashqelon, is a coastal city in the Southern District (Israel), Southern District of Israel on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast, south of Tel Aviv, and north of the border with the Gaza Strip. The modern city is eponym, named after the ancient seaport of Ascalon, which was destroyed in 1270 and whose remains are on the southwestern edge of the modern metropolis. The Israeli city, first known as Migdal (), was founded in 1949 approximately 4 km inland from ancient Ascalon at the Palestinian town of al-Majdal (). Its inhabitants had been exclusively Muslims and Christians, and the area had been allocated to the Palestine in the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine; on the eve of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War the inhabitants numbered 10,000 and in October 1948, the city accommodated thousands more Palestinian refugees from nearby villages. The town was conquered by Israeli forces on 5 November 1948, by which time 1948 Palestinian expulsion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
