Tel Dor
Tel Dor or Tell el-Burj, also Khirbet el-Burj in Arabic, is an archaeological site located on the Israeli coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea next to modern moshav Dor, about 30 kilometers south of Haifa, and 2.5 kilometers west of Hadera.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site
- Also known as: “Dawra”, “Dor”, and “Dora”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Mizgaga Museum and Al-Tantura.
Al-Tantura
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Tantura was a Palestinian Arab fishing village located 8 kilometers northwest of Zikhron Ya'akov on the Mediterranean coast of Mandatory Palestine. Near the village lie the ruins of the ancient Phoenician city of Dor. Al-Tantura is situated 1 km south of Tel Dor.
Cafarlet
Ruins
Cafarlet or Capharleth or Kafr Lam is an Early Muslim coastal fortress of the Roman castrum type. Today it is located inside Moshav HaBonim, Israel, on lands of the now abandoned Arab village of Kafr Lam. Cafarlet is situated 2½ km northeast of Tel Dor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nahsholim and Dor.
Nahsholim
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nahsholim is a kibbutz and beach resort in northern Israel. Located near Zikhron Ya'akov, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 719.
Dor
Village
Photo: Daniel Ventura, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dor is a moshav in northern Israel. Located near Zikhron Ya'akov, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 463.
HaBonim
Village
Photo: RoyTek, Public domain.
HaBonim is a moshav shitufi in northern Israel. Located 5 km south of Atlit and 3 km north of Kibbutz Nahsholim, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hof HaCarmel Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 409. HaBonim is situated 2½ km northeast of Tel Dor.
Tel Dor
- Categories: tell, national park, ancient city, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Haifa District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.61837° or 32° 37′ 6″ northLongitude
34.91735° or 34° 55′ 2″ eastElevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
8G4PJW98+8WOpenStreetMap ID
way 367010924OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Tel Dor” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خربة البرج (تل دور)”
- Arabic: “خربة البرج”
- Catalan: “Dawra”
- Catalan: “Dor”
- Catalan: “Dora”
- Cebuano: “Dor”
- Dutch: “Tel Dor”
- Esperanto: “Dor (antikva urbo)”
- Esperanto: “Dor”
- Finnish: “Dora (Palestiina)”
- Finnish: “Dora”
- French: “Dor (ville)”
- French: “Tel Dor”
- German: “Dor (Stadt)”
- German: “Dor”
- German: “Tel Dor”
- Hebrew: “H̱orbat Dor”
- Hebrew: “דאר”
- Hebrew: “דור”
- Hebrew: “חרבת דור”
- Hebrew: “תל דור”
- Italian: “Dor (Bibbia)”
- Italian: “Dor”
- Japanese: “ドル (イスラエル)”
- Japanese: “ドル”
- Kazakh: “Дор”
- Kirghiz: “Дор”
- Persian: “تل دور”
- Russian: “Дор (город)”
- Russian: “Дор (Израиль)”
- Russian: “Дор”
- Russian: “Тель-Дор”
- Slovenian: “Dor”
- Slovenian: “Tel Dor”
- Spanish: “Dawra”
- Spanish: “Dor”
- Spanish: “Dora”
- Spanish: “Tel Dor”
- Spanish: “Tell Dor”
- Swedish: “Dor”
- Turkish: “Dora”
- Ukrainian: “Тель-Дор”
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