Tantura
Sign in to saveTantura (, al-Tantura, lit. The Peak; Hebrew and Phoenician: דור, Dor) was a Palestinian Arab fishing village located northwest of Zikhron Ya'akov on the Mediterranean coast of Mandatory Palestine. Near the village lie the ruins of the ancient Phoenician city of Dor.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tantura
- Settlement.native_name
- الطنطورة
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.other_name
- al-Tantura
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Tantura, from Matson collection (cropped).png
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250
- Settlement.image_caption
- Tantura (c.1920-1933) during the British Mandate
- Settlement.etymology
- "The Peak"
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- Palestine
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.map_caption
- A series of historical maps of the area around Tantura (click the buttons)
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
- Settlement.grid_position
- 142/224
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Geopolitical entity
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Subdistrict
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Haifa
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Mandatory Palestine
- Located in
- Haifa Subdistrict
- Area
- 14.520
- Image
- Al Tantura.jpg
- Significant event
- Tantura massacre
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- History
- Iron Age
- Hebrew Bible reference
- Hellenistic and Roman periods
- Byzantine period
- Early Islamic period
- Crusader period
- Later titular Catholic see of Dora
- Ottoman period
- British Mandate period
- 1948 war
- Tantura massacre
- Aftermath
- Nahsholim and Dor
- Marine archaeology
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Tantura (, al-Tantura, lit. The Peak; Hebrew and Phoenician: דור, Dor) was a Palestinian Arab fishing village located northwest of Zikhron Ya'akov on the Mediterranean coast of Mandatory Palestine. Near the village lie the ruins of the ancient Phoenician city of Dor.
The village stood on a low limestone hill overlooking the shoreline of two small bays. The water was supplied from a well in the eastern part of the village. The al-Bab gate was in the southeast of the village. The Roman ruins were on the coast to the north with the hill of Umm Rashid to the south. In 1945 it had a population of 1,490.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tantura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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