Jaffa: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	Yāfā • Yapu • Joppa • Yafo

Photos

Small boats and fishing vessels are docked in the old port of Jaffa, Israel, with historic stone buildings rising up the hillside in the background.

Engraving of Richard I, wearing armor and raising an axe, leading knights as they land by ship at Jaffa during the Third Crusade, with soldiers gathering on shore.

Antoine-Jean Gros: Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa

Theodor Herzl, seated at center in a dark suit and cap, with a group of men in mixed Western and Middle Eastern attire on the deck of a ship, sailing toward Jaffa.

Map showing the United Nations partition plan for Palestine adopted in 1947, with areas color-coded to indicate proposed Jewish state, Arab state, and a separate Jerusalem district. The map includes key cities and regions, borders with Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, and Egypt, and highlights the Mediterranean coast.

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Topics

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Major Events

Richard I at Jaffa, 1192

Battle of Jaffa

Side view of the Sphinx with the Great Pyramid of Khufu rising behind it on the Giza Plateau near Cairo, Egypt.

ancient Egypt

ancient civilization

Israel

country, Middle East

ancient Middle East

ancient Middle East

historical region, Asia

This map shows the territorial expansion of the Ottoman Empire from 1300 to its greatest extent in 1683-99, highlighting different periods under rulers such as Mehmed II, Selim I, and Süleyman the Magnificent, and marking key cities, seas, and geographical boundaries in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

Ottoman Empire

historical empire, Eurasia and Africa

Tel Aviv–Yafo, Israel

Tel Aviv–Yafo

Israel

Key People

Benny Hinn

Benny Hinn

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Abū Niḍāl

Palestinian militant leader