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Ekron

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Ancient site.name: Ekron
Ancient site.native_name: عقرون
Ancient site.alternate_name: Tel Miqne/Mikne (Hebrew), Khirbet el-Muqanna (Arabic)
Ancient site.map_type: Israel
Ancient site.map_size: 220
Ancient site.location: Israel
Ancient site.region: Levant, Israeli coastal plain
Ancient site.epochs: Chalcolithic - Iron Age
Ancient site.cultures: Canaanite, Philistine, Israelite
Ancient site.archaeologists: Trude Dothan and Seymour Gitin

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In the Bible
Location
History
Middle Bronze IIB
Late Bronze
Iron Age
Iron Age I
Iron Age IIC
Archaeology
Chronological development
Chronological chart
Middle Bronze Age
Late Bronze Age
Iron Age I
Iron Age II
Roman to Islamic periods
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Ekron (Philistine: 𐤏𐤒𐤓𐤍 *ʿAqrūn, or *Aqārān , ), in the Hellenistic period known as Accaron () was at first a Canaanite, and later more famously a Philistine city, one of the five cities of the Philistine Pentapolis, located in present-day Israel.

In 1957, Ekron was first identified with the mound of Khirbet el-Muqanna (Arabic) or Tel Miqne (Hebrew), near the depopulated Palestinian village of 'Aqir, on the basis of the large size of the Iron Age archaeological remains; the judgement was strengthened by the discovery in 1996 of the Ekron inscription. The tell lies west of Jerusalem, and north of Tel es-Safi, the almost certain site of the Philistine city of Gath, on the grounds of Kibbutz Revadim on the eastern edge of the Israeli coastal plain. The other main cities of the Philistine Pentapolis beyond Ekron and Gath were Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ashdod.