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The Old City is currently divided into four uneven quarters: the Muslim Quarter, the Christian Quarter, the Armenian Quarter and the Jewish Quarter. Matthew Teller writes that this four-quarter convention may have originated in the 1841 British Royal Engineers map of Jerusalem, [4] or at least Reverend George Williams' subsequent labelling of ...
El Qala and Davids Tower in the 1936 Old City of Jerusalem map by Survey of Palestine map.jpg; Pools of Siloam in the 1936 Old City of Jerusalem map by Survey of Palestine map 1-2,500 (cropped).jpg; Qasr Jalud in the Old City of Jerusalem map by Survey of Palestine map 1-2,500 (cropped).jpg; Madrasah al-Tankiziya (labelled 12) in the Old City ...
This article lists the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. The gates are visible on most old maps of Jerusalem over the last 1,500 years. During different periods, the city walls followed different outlines and had a varying number of gates. During the era of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099–1291), Jerusalem had four gates, one on each ...
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's Old City came under Israeli control in the aftermath of the Six-Day War in 1967. However, the Armenian patriarchate is the de facto administrator of the quarter and acts as a "mini- welfare state " for the Armenian residents. [ 4 ]
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]
The map provides a detailed description of the old city of Jerusalem, with an accurate description of the ancient city's wall which was built by Suleiman the Magnificent, of the Temple Mount structures, and of the Tower of David. The structures surrounding the ancient city and the locations of the ancient city's streets are illustrated freely.
See Cartography of Jerusalem, which covers historical of maps of Jerusalem, for the main article on this topic. Pages in category "Old maps of Jerusalem" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.