The purpose of these pages is to summarise a variety of items of chronological information of a general nature relating to towns and cities within Israel and the surrounding areas. They contain records known about various key cities, in Israel and elsewhere, over the period in question. Necessarily this will be abbreviated in the interest of space, and where identification of places is tentative this is pointed out. For towns and cities where more depth of information is useful, links are provided to other pages. A companion set of pages reviews information about Egyptian military campaigns into Israel and the vicinity.