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Jaffa

1. a port in W Israel, on the Mediterranean: incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950; an old Canaanite city
2. a large variety of orange, having a thick skin
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Jaffa

 

a part of Tel Aviv since 1949. Jaffa is first mentioned in ancient Egyptian documents dating from the 16th century B.C. In antiquity, the area was controlled, at different times, by the Canaanites, Philistines, Hebrews, and Romans. In the Middle Ages the city of Jaffa was an important commercial and cultural center for the Palestinian Arabs. It was part of the Ottoman Empire from the 16th century to 1917, when it was seized by the British. Jaffa subsequently became part of the British mandate in Palestine. Under a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on Nov. 29, 1947, Jaffa was supposed to become part of an Arab Palestinian state, but it was captured by Israel during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948–49.

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