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Constantine the Great moved the Roman capital from Rome to Constantinople ("New Rome") c. 330, sometimes considered the start of the Byzantine Empire, and with the Edict of Thessalonica in 380, Christianity became the state church of the Roman Empire. The Christian emperors persecuted their Jewish subjects and restricted their rights.
10 June: The Moroccan Quarter including 135 houses is razed, creating the Western Wall Plaza. 28 June: Israel declares Jerusalem unified and announces free access to holy sites of all religions. 1968: Israel starts rebuilding the Jewish Quarter, confiscating 129 dunams (0.129 km 2) of land which had made up the Jewish Quarter before 1948.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (February 2025) Visual History of Israel by Arthur Szyk, 1948 Part of a series on the History of ...
1948 May 14 – Israeli Declaration of Independence: Jewish leadership in the region of Palestine announces the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel. [191] 1948 May 14–1949 January 7 – The 1948 Arab–Israeli War: a large-scale war between Israel and five Arab countries and the Palestinian-Arabs.
[dubious – discuss] The Rafah land port, known as the "Salah al Din Gate" [dubious – discuss] [4] is located at the original Rafah crossing on the Salah al-Din Road, [dubious – discuss] the main highway of Gaza from Erez to Rafah. Rafah land port was bombed by Israel in October 2009 allegedly to destroy tunnels. [5]
Roman Palestine was a period in the history of Palestine characterised by Roman rule in the Palestine region. Historians typically trace the period from the Hasmonean civil war in 63 BCE up until the end of the Byzantine rule with the Muslim conquest of the Levant in the 7th century.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. City in State of Palestine Rafah City Arabic transcription(s) • Arabic رَفَح Aerial view of Rafah in 2012 Location of Rafah in the Gaza Strip Rafah Location of Rafah Coordinates: 31°16′21″N 34°15′31″E / 31.27250°N 34.25861°E / 31.27250; 34.25861 Palestine grid 77/78 ...
The Jewish community in Rome during the Middle Ages is marked by periods of relative stability interspersed with episodes of persecution and hardship. [6] With the Christianization of the Roman Empire under Emperor Constantine in 312 CE, the status of Jews in Rome began to change. [6]