[NV Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Gaza.html

[Paul Etxeberri]

>Years ago I learned from a National Geographic map that Gauze 
>(cotton bandages)
       comes from the word Gaza.

>
>Ancient Gaza
>
>(photo of beach site)
>
>A site of ancient Palestine underlying the modern town of Gaza. No
>excavations have taken place but it is known to have had Philistine -
>Egyptian - Sea Peoples occupation ..... (AHSFC)
>
>The first reference to the town of Gaza comes during the reign of
>Tuthmose III. It is also mentioned in the Tell Amarna Letters. Its
>strategic location on the coastal road connecting Egypt to Palestine made
>it a thriving trade center and an important Egyptian outpost. Three
>hundred years of Egyptian occupation were ended when the Philistines, a
>tribe of the Sea Peoples, captured the city .....
>
>Gaza is the most southern as well as the most famous of the five
>federated cities of the Philistines. Being situated on the great coastal
>highway between Egypt and Mesopotamia and at a junction of the trade
>route from south and central Arabia it was an important commercial and
>military center from Canaanite times .....
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-- 
Paul Etxeberri

"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow"   ---Chateaubriand