Ascalon

Ashkelon: a city on the coast of Palestine, one of the districts of the military district of Palestine, according to al-Baladhuri. In the museum's data it belongs to Jerusalem. ¹

al-Baladhuri reports that Umar ibn al-Khattab conquered it by treaty after a stratagem, and it is also said that Amr ibn al-As was the one who conquered it. It is said that Amr conquered it, then its people broke the covenant and the Byzantines reinforced them, so Mu'awiya reconquered it, settled in it garrison men, and appointed guards over it. ¹

al-Baladhuri relays from the shaykhs of its people that the Byzantines ruined it and expelled its people in the days of Ibn al-Zubayr, and when Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan came to power he rebuilt it and fortified it. He reports that it contained estates granted by order of Umar and Uthman, and that Abd al-Malik granted a man of the Arabs an estate in it, among the estates of the garrison. ²