Arsuf

Arsuf (also known as Arsur or Apollonia) was an ancient city and fortress located in what is now Israel, about 15 kilometres north of Tel Aviv, on the cliff above Mediterranian Sea. The city site, Tel Arsuf, was intensively excavated from 1994. In 2002, Apollonia National Park was open here.

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Modern Arsuf is a small settlement to the north from Apollonia (area 0.25 km?, 90 inhabitants).

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The town was settled by Phoenicians in the 6th or 5th century BC, and named Arshuf after Reshef, the Canaanite god of fertility and the underworld. It was then a part of the Persian Empire and governed from Sidon. Phoenicians of Arshuf produced the precious purple dye, derived from murex mollusks, which they exported to the Aegean.

Tel Aviv: Tel-Aviv-Yafo (Hebrew תֶּל אָבִיב-יָפוֹ (without niqqud: ?? ????-???); Arabic تَلْ اَبِيبْ-يَافَا Tal-Ab...

Mediterranian Sea: REDIRECT Mediterranean Sea...

Phoenicia: Phoenicia was an ancient civilization in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal plain of what is now Lebanon and Syria. Phoenician civilization was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread right across the Mediterranean during the first millennium BC. Though an...