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2. Cartography of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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   The cartography of Jerusalem is the creation, editing, processing and printing of maps of Jerusalem from ancient times until the rise of modern surveying techniques. Most extant maps known to scholars from the pre-modern era were prepared by Christian mapmakers for a Christian European audience. [1][2]

3. Old City of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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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 divided ...

4. Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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   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). [ 159 ] The whole of Jerusalem is surrounded by valleys and dry riverbeds (wadis).

5. History of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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   1883 map of Jerusalem. In the mid-19th century, with the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the city was a backwater, with a population that did not exceed 8,000. ...

6. Geography of Israel - Wikipedia

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   Israel on the world map. Israel lies to the north of the equator around 31°30' north latitude and 34°45' east longitude. [1] It measures 424 km (263 mi) from north to south [dubious – discuss] and, at its widest point 114 km (71 mi), from east to west. [1] At its narrowest point, however, this is reduced to just 15 km (9 mi).

7. List of cities in Israel - Wikipedia

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   List. Israel has 16 cities with populations over 100,000, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Yafo. [2] In all, there are 77 Israeli localities granted "municipalities" (or "city") status by the Ministry of the Interior, including four Israeli settlements in the West Bank. [3] Two more cities are planned: Kasif, a planned city to be built in the ...

8. Madaba Map - Wikipedia

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   Madaba Map. Coordinates: 31°43′3.54″N 35°47′39.12″E. Jerusalem on the Madaba Map. The Madaba Map, also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map, is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan. The mosaic map depicts an area from Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, and from the ...

9. Kiepert maps of Palestine and Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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   The 1845 map of Jerusalem was originally based upon on the 1840–41 Royal Engineers maps of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, together with data from Ernst Gustav Schultz, who had been the Prussian consul since 1842. [8]