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In the 10th century, Al-Muqaddasi described Jaffa as a small town, protected by a strong wall with iron gates. Constantin de Volney, the French politician and orientalist, who visited Jaffa on his journey to the east, reported it had walls twelve to fourteen feet high and three to five feet wide. [3] These walls were breached by Napoleon in ...
Jerusalem 1:10,000 and 1:2,500 maps (see here): In 1936 a 1:2,500 map of the Old City of Jerusalem was published, the first detailed map since the 1865 Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem. [28] This was followed by 1:5,000 provisional plans of Jerusalem and its environs, which were reduced to 1:10,000 scale for general printing. [28]
The Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project; Jaffa Old City Photos in Cafetorah.com, archived from the original on 4 March 2016; Telaviv-Jaffa in Cafetorah.com, archived from the original on 28 March 2015; Neff, Donald (April–May 1994). "Arab Jaffa seized before Israel's creation in 1948". Washington Report on Middle East Affairs: 75.
The route from Bethel southwards would have passed through today's neighborhoods of Beit Hanina, Shuafat, French Hill, Givat HaMivtar and Kerem Avraham, crossing Jaffa Road at the center of modern down-town Jerusalem behind the HaMashbir Department Store building, and continuing along Shmuel HaNagid St. (peak height: Ratisbonne Monastery), King ...
Christian Quarter: Arched entrance to the Muristan, northern access to Suq Aftimos Map of the Christian Quarter. The Christian Quarter (Hebrew: הרובע הנוצרי, romanized: Ha-Rova ha-Notsri; Arabic: حارة النصارى, romanized: Ḥārat al-Naṣārā) is one of the four quarters of the walled Old City of Jerusalem, the other three being the Jewish Quarter, the Muslim Quarter and ...
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 Old City was damaged by the Napoleonic wars and an earthquake in 1837. [1] When the wall of Jaffa, which was rebuilt in the early 19th century, was dismantled between 1878 and 1888 to allow expansion, both the city and the centres of government shifted eastwards, though the Old City remained the cultural center of the city.