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Lamnia

Yibna

Lamnia is Jamnia, the biblical Jabneh, today's Yibna. It lay a little inland, with a harbour of two bays on the coast, and Strabo says the town and its surroundings could field forty thousand armed men. Augustus gave it to Herod in 30 BC; Herod left it to his sister Salome, and from her it passed to the empress Livia. After the destruction of Jerusalem it became the centre of Jewish life, the seat of the great rabbinic court and a famous school. On the map two roads leave it, one to Ioppe and one to Luddis.

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