Lod, Lydda ,Israel, The Church of St George with Mosque behind
From the 5th century BC until the Roman conquest in 70 AD, the city was a Jewish city, and a well-known centre of Jewish scholars and merchants. The city is mentioned several times in the Bible: in Ezra 2:33, it is mentioned as one of the cities whose inhabitants returned after the Babylonian captivity, and in the New Testament, it is the site of Peter's healing of a paralytic man in Acts 9:32-38. In 43 AD, Cassius, the Roman governor of Syria, sold the inhabitants of Lod into slavery. During the First Jewish–Roman War, the Roman proconsul of Syria, Cestius Gallus, razed the town on his way to Jerusalem in 66 AD. It was occupied by Emperor Vespasian in 68 AD In 200 AD, emperor Septimius Severus elevated the town to the status of a city, calling it Colonia Lucia Septimia Severa Diospolis. The name Diospolis ("city of gods") may have been bestowed earlier, possibly by Hadrian. In the sixth century the city changed its name again to Georgiopolis after St. George, a soldier in the guard of the emperor Diocletian, who was born there between 256 and 285 and was Martyred in 303 remains were buried there and a church was built in his honor by King Richard the Lion Hearted .
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Location: Lod or Lydda Israel
Photo credit: © moris kushelevitch / Alamy / Afripics
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