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Jaffa (Arabic: يَافَا Yāfā ; also Japho, Joppa; also, ~1350 B.C.E. Amarna Letters: Yapu; Hebrew: יָפוֹ, Yafo), is an ancient port city located in Israel on the Mediterranean Sea.
It is mentioned four times in the Hebrew Bible, as one of the cities given to the Tribe of Dan (Book of Joshua 19:46), as port-of-entry for the cedars of Lebanon for Solomon's Temple (2 Chronicles 2:15), as the place from whence the prophet Jonah embarked for Tarshish (Book of Jonah 1:3) and than as port-of-entry for the cedars of Lebanon for the Second Temple of Jerusalem (Book of Ezra 3:7). It was also an important city in the Arab Middle East. During the Crusades, it was the County of Jaffa, a stronghold of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
The city is now part of the municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo in the Tel Aviv District; the tell ("mound") of ancient Jaffa in "Old Jaffa" is part of a park in south-western Tel Aviv.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa
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