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The cartography of Jerusalem prior to modern surveying techniques is focused only on the Old City, shown here.The expansion of the city from the mid-nineteenth century coincided with the production of the first modern map (see the Ordnance Survey map in the list below).
Jerusalem [note 2] is a city in the ... Matthew Teller writes that this convention may have originated in the 1841 British Royal Engineers map of Jerusalem, [13] ...
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The maps of Palestine were first published in 1841 to accompany the first edition of Biblical Researches in Palestine, and published again in 1856 to accompany the second edition. [2] It has been described as the most important element of Robinson's publication: "Perhaps, Robinson’s most important accomplishment, however, was the drawing of ...
The Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem of 1864–65 was the first scientific mapping of Jerusalem, and the first Ordnance Survey to take place outside the United Kingdom. [1] It was undertaken by Charles William Wilson, a 28-year-old officer in the Royal Engineers corps of the British Army, under the authority of Sir Henry James, as Superintendent of the Ordnance Survey, and with the sanction of ...
In 1535, when Jerusalem was part of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ordered the ruined city walls to be rebuilt. The walls were constructed between 1537 and 1541. [1] [2] The walls are visible on most old maps of Jerusalem over the last 1,500 years. [example needed]
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 Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Eastern Desert.
Western Wall area and Moroccan Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem map by Survey of Palestine map 1-2,500 (cropped).jpg; Orphanage (number 39) in the Old City of Jerusalem map by Survey of Palestine map 1-2,500 (cropped).jpg; Mt Zion in the 1936 Old City of Jerusalem map by Survey of Palestine map 1-2,500.jpg