Dor: Dwelling, the Dora of the Romans, an ancient royal city of the
Canaanites
(Joshua 11:1,2; 12:23) It was the most southern settlement of
the Phoenicians on the coast of Syria. The original inhabitants seem
never to have been expelled, although they were made tributary by
David. It was one of Solomon's commissariat districts
(Judges 1:27)
(1 Kings 4:11) It has been identified with Tantura (so named from the
supposed resemblance of its tower to a tantur, i.e., "a horn"). This
tower fell in 1895 and nothing remains but debris and foundation
walls, the remains of an old Crusading fortress. It is about 8 miles
north of Caesarea, "a sad and sickly hamlet of wretched huts on a
naked sea-beach."
