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ISBN. 0-2978-52655. Dewey Decimal. 956.94/420099. LC Class. 2011-020827. Preceded by. Young Stalin ( LA Times Book Prize, Costa Book Awards ) Jerusalem: The Biography is a 2011 bestselling [1] [2] non-fiction book by British popular historian and writer Simon Sebag Montefiore .
- Simon Sebag Montefiore
- 2011
Israel portal. v. t. e. During its long history, Jerusalem has been attacked 52 times, captured and recaptured 44 times, besieged 23 times, and destroyed twice. [1] The oldest part of the city was settled in the 4th millennium BCE, making Jerusalem one of the oldest cities in the world. [2]
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, the Red Sea to the south, Egypt to the southwest, the Mediterranean Sea to the west, and the Palestinian territories – the West Bank along the east and the Gaza Strip along the southwest.
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The Old City of Jerusalem ( Arabic: المدينة القديمة, romanized : al-Madīna al-Qadīma, Hebrew: הָעִיר הָעַתִּיקָה, romanized : Ha'ír Ha'atiká) is a 0.9-square-kilometre (0.35 sq mi) walled area [2] in East Jerusalem . In a tradition that may have begun with an 1840s British map of the city, the Old City is ...
Jerusalem is situated on the southern spur of a plateau in the Judaean Mountains, which include the Mount of Olives (East) and Mount Scopus (North East). The elevation of the Old City is approximately 760 m (2,490 ft). [327] The whole of Jerusalem is surrounded by valleys and dry riverbeds ( wadis ).
v. t. e. The king or queen of Jerusalem was the supreme ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, a Crusader state founded in Jerusalem by the Latin Catholic leaders of the First Crusade, when the city was conquered in 1099. Most of them were men, but there were also five queens regnant of Jerusalem, either reigning alone suo jure ("in her own right ...
Demographic data from 1967 to 2012 showed continues growth of Arab population, both in relative and absolute numbers, and the declining of Jewish population share in the overall population of the city. In 1967, Jews were 73.4% of city population, while in 2010 the Jewish population shrank to 64%. In the same period the Arab population increased ...
