Ashkelon

Ashkelon or Ashqelon Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן Arabic عسقلان ˁAsqalān; is a city on the Mediterranean coast of , 50 km to the south of .
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  • Type: Town with 144,000 residents
  • Description: city in Israel
  • Also known as: “Ahskelon”, “Al Majdal”, “Al-Majdal”, “Ascalom”, “Aschkalon”, “Ashkalon”, “Ashkalón”, “Ashkelón”, “Ashkélon”, “Ashqalon”, “Ashqelon”, “Ashquelon”, “Aškalon”, “Askalun”, “Askalún”, “Askelon”, “Aŝkelono”, “Askhelon”, “Asqelon”, “Asquelom”, “Aszkalon”, “El Majdal”, “El Medjdel”, “Majdal”, “Majdal ‘Asqalān”, “Migdal”, “Migdal Ascalon”, “Migdal Ashqelon”, “Migdal Gad”, “Mint of Ascalon”, “Senorio de Ascalon”, “Senorio de Ascalón”, “Senorío de Ascalon”, “Senorío de Ascalón”, “Señorio de Ascalon”, “Señorio de Ascalón”, “Señorío de Ascalon”, “ʿAsqalān”, “Ασκαλών”, “Ασκάλων”, “Аскалан”, “Аскалон”, “Эль-Маджаль”, “აშქელონი, ასკალონი”, “אַשְׁקְלוֹן”, “أشقلون”, “اشقلون”, “اشكلون”, “المجدل”, “المجدل عسقلان”, and “阿什克隆”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Barzilai Medical Center and Ashkelon Sports Arena.

Hospital
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is a 600-bed district general hospital in Ashkelon, opened in 1961.

Sports venue
A.S. Ironi Ashkelon is a professional basketball team based in Ashkelon, south west .

Ruins
Ni'ilya was a Palestinian village in the Gaza Subdistrict.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bat Hadar.

Village
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is a community settlement in southern . is situated 3½ km southeast of Ashkelon.

Ashkelon

Latitude
31.6653° or 31° 39′ 55″ north
Longitude
34.565° or 34° 33′ 54″ east
Population
144,000
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IL AKL
Open location code
8G3PMH88+42
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278476881
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
295620
Wiki­data ID
Q60956
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ashkelon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ashkelon”
  • Arabic: “أشكلون”
  • Arabic: “عسقلان”
  • Armenian: “Աշկելոն”
  • Asturian: “Ashkelon”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aşkelon”
  • Basque: “Axkelon”
  • Belarusian: “Ашкелон”
  • Bengali: “আশকেলন”
  • Bengali: “আসকালান”
  • Betawi: “Askelan”
  • Breton: “Achkelon”
  • Bulgarian: “Ашкелон”
  • Catalan: “Ascaló”
  • Cebuano: “Ashqelon”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەشکەلۆن”
  • Chinese: “亞實基倫”
  • Chinese: “阿什凯隆”
  • Croatian: “Aškelon”
  • Czech: “Aškelon”
  • Danish: “Ashkelon”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Eşkelon”
  • Dutch: “Asjkelon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “عسقلان”
  • Esperanto: “Aŝkelon”
  • Estonian: “Ashkelon”
  • Finnish: “Askalon”
  • French: “Ascalon”
  • French: “Ashkelon”
  • Galician: “Ascalón”
  • Georgian: “აშკელონი”
  • German: “Aschkelon”
  • Greek: “Ασκελόν”
  • Gujarati: “એસ્કેલોન”
  • Hebrew: “אשקלון”
  • Hindi: “अश्कलोन”
  • Hungarian: “Askelón”
  • Indonesian: “Ashkelon”
  • Irish: “Ashkelon”
  • Italian: “Ascalona”
  • Italian: “Ashqelon”
  • Japanese: “アシュケロン”
  • Kannada: “ಅಶ್ಕೆಲಾನ್”
  • Korean: “아슈켈론”
  • Ladino: “Ashkelon”
  • Latin: “Ascalon”
  • Latvian: “Aškelona”
  • Latvian: “Ašketona”
  • Lithuanian: “Aškelonas”
  • Lombard: “Ascalun”
  • Macedonian: “Ашкелон”
  • Malay: “Ashqelon”
  • Malay: “Asqalan”
  • Manx: “Ashkelon”
  • Marathi: “अशकलॉन”
  • Mingrelian: “აშკელონი”
  • Moksha: “Ашкэлон”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أشكلون”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ashkelon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ashkelon”
  • Norwegian: “Ashkelon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ashkelon”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܫܩܠܘܢ”
  • Ossetian: “Ашкелон”
  • Persian: “اشکلون”
  • Polish: “Aszkelon”
  • Portuguese: “Ascalão”
  • Romanian: “Așkelon”
  • Russian: “Ашкелон”
  • Scots: “Ashkelon”
  • Serbian: “Ашкелон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aškelon”
  • Sinhala: “අශ්කෙලෝන්”
  • Slovak: “Askalon”
  • Slovenian: “Aškelon”
  • Somali: “Casqalaan”
  • Spanish: “Ascalón”
  • Swahili: “Ashkelon”
  • Swedish: “Ashkelon”
  • Tagalog: “Ashkelon”
  • Tamil: “அஸ்கேலோன்”
  • Tamil: “ஆஷிகேலோன்”
  • Telugu: “అష్కేలోన్”
  • Thai: “อัชเกล็อน”
  • Thai: “อัชเคลอน”
  • Turkish: “Askalan”
  • Turkish: “Aşkelon”
  • Ukrainian: “Ашкелон”
  • Urdu: “عسقلان”
  • Venetian: “Ascalona”
  • Vietnamese: “Ashkelon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ashkelon”
  • Welsh: “Ashkelon”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚实基伦”
  • Yiddish: “אשקלון”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿什凱隆”
  • “Ashqelon”

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