Yerushalayim
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- Names
Yerushalayim
El Quds
Al Quds
El Quds Esh Sherif
Al-Muqaddas
Jérusalem
Jerusalem
Gerusalemme
Jerusalén
City of David
City of the Great King
Aelia Capitolina
Colonia Aelia Capitolina
Hierosolyma
Mount Zion
Urusalim
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- First mentioned in Tell al-ʻAmarna letters 1370 BCE; holy city of Jews, Christians and Muslims; viewed as international city by United Nations' partition of Palestine; after the 1948 war, the city was divided between Jordan and Israel; the entire city was claimed by Israel in 1967.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995); BHA, Authority file (1973-); Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983); Cassell's Spanish Dictionary (1990); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Encyclopedia of World History (1980); GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998); Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979); Times Atlas of World History (1993)...
- Died
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