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Achziv Beach National Park

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Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv Beach National Park
Achziv is an ancient site on the Mediterranean coast of northern Israel, between the border with Lebanon and the city of Acre - 15 kilometers north of Acre, within the municipal area of Nahariya. Today it is an Israeli national park. The legally disputed micronation of Akhzivland is located in the immediate vicinity. Excavations have unearthed a fortified Canaanite city of the second millennium BCE. The Phoenician town of the first millennium BCE is known both from the Hebrew Bible and Assyrian sources. Phoenician Achzib went through ups and downs during the Persian and Hellenistic periods. In Roman times Acdippa was a road station. The Bordeaux Pilgrim mentions it in 333-334 CE still as a road station; Jewish sources of the Byzantine period call it Kheziv and Gesiv. There is no information about settlement at the site for the Early Muslim period. The Crusaders built a new village with a castle. During the Mamluk and Ottoman periods a modest village occupied the old tell . This village was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. The only permanent resident of Achziv is an Israeli who has been welcoming visitors to a small stretch of beach where he has lived since 1975.
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