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Excerpt from Travels in Egypt, Being a Continuation of the Travels in the Holy Land, in 1817-18
Gaza as well as Ascalon, were included within the five lordships of the Philistines; it frequently changed masters, having been successively under' the dominion of the Jews, the Chaldeans, and the Persians; it was afterwards taken and destroyed by Alexander. There had been two cities of this name; Little, or the new_gaza, called by the ancients, the maritime, or naval, and. Situated on the sea-coast, and the old city, at the distance of a small league'r from it. Antiochus took and plundered Gaza, after driving out the Egyptian garrison. Thevenot, in his Voyage to the Levant, takes some notice 'of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
