LYDDA (Hebr. Lâdh; Gr. Λάδω). - A city of Palestine, 20 km. from Jaffa and 44 from Jerusalem. It is mentioned among the cities conquered by Tuthmosis III; its founding, according to 1 Chron. 8, 12, is traced back to the Benjaminite Shamad. After the exile it was repopulated by the Benjaminites (Ezra 2, 33; Neh. 7, 37; 11, 35), but it acquired importance only in the Hellenistic period, when it became the capital of a toparchy (Antiq. Iud., XX, 2; Bell. Iud., III, 3, 5). Around 145 B.C., Demetrius II Nicator detached it from Samaria to join it to Judea, giving it to Judas Maccabeus (1 Macc. 11, 34; Antiq. Iud., XVIII, 4, 9). Pompey took it from the Maccabees, but Caesar restored it to them. Around A.D. 200 Septimius Severus gave it the name of Diospolis. St. Peter found Christians already there and healed Aeneas (Acts 10, 32-34).
The bishop of L. appears at Nicaea (325); the cult of St. George, believed to be a native of L., is well known in the 6th century through the church erected over his relics, transferred from Nicomedia. After 70 the Jews had a flourishing rabbinical school there. L. lost importance with the rise of Ramleh (8th century). In the Middle Ages it was administered by a viscount. In 1948 it was reoccupied by the Jews, with the removal of the Arab population.
Bibliography6 worksC. Enhart, Les monuments des Croisés, Paris 1928, pp. 272-74; G. Beyer, Das Stadtgebiet von Diospolis, in Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästin
BIBL.: C. Enhart, Les monuments des Croisés, Paris 1928, pp. 272-74; G. Beyer, Das Stadtgebiet von Diospolis, in Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins, 36 (1933), pp. 218-45; The quarterly of department of antiquities in Palestine, 5 (1936), p. 153; 8 (1939), p. 77; 10 (1944), pp. 184, 203; F.-M. Abel, Géographie de la Palestine, II, Paris 1938, pp. 135, 153, 193-202, 370-71.
Bagatti, Bellarmino. “Lidda (Ebr. Lâdh; Gr. ΛΆΔΩ).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 1333. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/lidda-ebr-ladh-gr-lado.
MLA
Bagatti, Bellarmino. “Lidda (Ebr. Lâdh; Gr. ΛΆΔΩ).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1333. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/lidda-ebr-ladh-gr-lado.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec7_lidda_ebr_ladh_gr_lado,
author = {Bagatti, Bellarmino},
title = {Lidda (Ebr. Lâdh; Gr. ΛΆΔΩ)},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {1333},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/lidda-ebr-ladh-gr-lado}
}
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