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 | | century CE unfortunately preserving only inland Iamneia, which is denominated 'Jabne'el, also named Iamneia'.As was usual along the southern section of the Israeli Mediterranean coast in antiquity, cities had both coastal and inland settlements. |
 | | The year 166 BCE was crucial: at Modiin, in the Judean Hills, Mattathias and his 5 sons, John, Simeon, Judas, Eleazar and Jonathan called the "Maccabees" or the "Hasmoneans", refused to obey the Kings officer sent to Modiin in order to insist upon the presentation of the sacrifice. |
 | | century BCE, there is insofar only scanty archaeological evidence of the existence of the city during this time. |
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