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[Note 1] In 6 CE, following Herod's death in 4 BCE, Judea and the city of Jerusalem came under direct Roman rule through Roman prefects, procurators, and legates (see List of Hasmonean and Herodian rulers). However, one of Herod's descendants was the last one to return to power as nominal king of Iudaea Province: Agrippa I (r. 41–44).
The History of Jerusalem during the Kingdom of Jerusalem began with the capture of the city by the Latin Christian forces at the apogee of the First Crusade. At that point it had been under Muslim rule for over 450 years. It became the capital of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, until it was again conquered by the Ayyubids under Saladin in 1187.
Fulk V comes to Jerusalem and marries Melisende after Baldwin II promises to appoint him as his sole heir. [161] September 4. Toghtekin's son and successor, Taj al-Muluk Buri, orders a purge against the Assassins in Damascus. Their leader Ismail al-Ajami offers to cede Banias to Baldwin II. [161] [162] October.
This is a timeline of major events in the history of Jerusalem; a city that had been fought over sixteen times in its history. [1] During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times.
The Kingdom of Jerusalem, also known as the Crusader Kingdom, was a Crusader state that was established in the Levant immediately after the First Crusade.It lasted for almost two hundred years, from the accession of Godfrey of Bouillon in 1099 until the fall of Acre in 1291.
[2] [3] [4] On 30 July 1980, the Knesset officially approved the Jerusalem Law, which called the city the complete and united capital. [5] Although it was claimed that the application of the Israeli law to East Jerusalem was not annexation, [6] this position was rejected by the Israeli Supreme Court. In a 1970 majority ruling, Justice Y. Kahan ...
Modern history (1517–1948) Ottoman rule. Eyalet; ... Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem during the 1920 Nebi Musa riots and ... directed at ending British rule.
Herod ruled Jerusalem for thirty-three years (37–4 BCE), during which he continuously balanced his loyalty to Rome with his commitment and obligations to his Jewish subjects. The Jews, however, despised Herod and called him an "Edomite slave", a reference both to his foreign origins and to his subservience to Rome.