Ashkelon (isr)

Ashkelon

Ashkelon ranks 1,926th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Champigny-sur-Marne, Bijelo Polje, and Hvidovre. The most famous people from Ashkelon are Herod the Great, Israel Katz, and Al-Hafiz. The most famous people who died in Ashkelon are William of Montferrat, Count of Jaffa and Ascalon, Abdallah ibn Sa'd, and Bernard de Tremelay. Ashkelon has been the birth place of many politicians, and military personnels and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels. Ashkelon is located in Israel.

Ashkelon or Ashqelon, is a coastal city in the Southern District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast, 50 kilometres (30 mi) south of Tel Aviv, and 13 kilometres (8 mi) north of the border with the Gaza Strip. The modern city is 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 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 much of the Arab population had fled, leaving some 2700 inhabitants, of whom Israeli soldiers deported 500 in December 1948, and most of the rest were deported by 1950. Today, the city's population is almost entirely Israeli Jews. Read more on Wikipedia