Ekron
Ekron (Philistine: 𐤏𐤒𐤓𐤍 *ʿAqrūn, or *Aqārān Hebrew: עֶקְרוֹן, romanized: ʿEqrōn, Arabic: عقرون, romanized: 'Aqrūn), in the Hellenistic period known as Accaron (Ancient Greek: Ακκαρων, romanized: Akkarōn) was at first a Canaanite, and later more famously a Philistine city, one of the five cities of the Philistine Pentapolis, located in present-day Israel. In 1957, Ekron was first identified with the mound of Khirbet el-Muqanna (Arabic) or Tel Miqne (Hebrew), near the depopulated Palestinian village of 'Aqir, on the basis of the large size of the Iron Age archaeological remains; the judgement was strengthened by the discovery in 1996 of the Ekron inscription.