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Megiddo: A Jewish airfield is located near this town, which is on the site of one of Palestine’s ancient cities in the Plain of Esdraelon. Josiah was slain there in battle in 609 B.C. Tanturah: Also known in olden times as Dora, or Dor, this town is the modern successor to the great Phoenician city which once existed on the coast of Palestine. It has been the site of interesting discoveries of the Hyksos period. Nazareth: The home of Jesus, Nazareth is built on the. lower slopes of a rocky ridge south-east of Acre. In the earliest ages of Christianity Nazareth (which is not mentioned in the Old Testament) was quite overlooked by the Church; the first Christian pilgrimage to it took placdi in the sixth century. The principal building is the Latin convent, on the supposed site of the Annunciation; but the Greeks have also erected on another spot a church in commemoration.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26780, 25 May 1948, Page 5
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158PLACES IN THE NEWS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26780, 25 May 1948, Page 5
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