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Jerusalem (/ dʒ ə ˈ r uː s əl ə m ˌ-z ə-/ jə-ROO-sə-ləm, -zə-; Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Yerushaláyim, pronounced [jeʁuʃaˈlajim] ⓘ; Arabic: القُدس al-Quds, pronounced ⓘ, local pronunciation:) is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
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Siege of Jerusalem, fall of Jerusalem, or sack of Jerusalem...
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According to the Bible, the Israelite history of the city...
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Aerial view of the bridge at night. The Chords Bridge...
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Jerusalem becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Judah and,...
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The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: قبة الصخرة, romanized: Qubbat...
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Names of Jerusalem refers to the multiple names by which the city of Jerusalem has been known and the etymology of the word in different languages. According to the Jewish Midrash, "Jerusalem has 70 names". Lists have been compiled of 72 different Hebrew names for Jerusalem in Jewish scripture.
Reports of the renewed killing of Christian pilgrims, and the defeat of the Byzantine Empire by the Seljuqs, led to the First Crusade. Europeans marched to recover the Holy Land, and on July 15, 1099, Christian soldiers were victorious in the one-month Siege of Jerusalem.
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The Jerusalem Bible was the first widely-accepted Catholic English translation of the Bible since the Douay–Rheims Version of the 17th century. It has also been widely praised for an overall very high level of scholarship, and is widely admired and sometimes used by liberal and moderate Protestants.
