Jerusalem is an ancient hill city in the highlands of the eastern Mediterranean, built across a set of ridges and valleys that shaped its walled Old City and its long history as a crossroads of trade and pilgrimage routes across the Levant. Its religious significance to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is treated in full on the family's Divinity Atlas; here it is described in its geographic frame, a hilltop settlement whose defensible terrain and freshwater springs, notably the Gihon Spring, explain why the site has been continuously inhabited for thousands of years.
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Population2024 figure. Area (sq km) Founding YearCirca; origins trace to the first settlement near the Gihon Spring. Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Connections
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The Levant, Regions Jerusalem sits in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains.
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Later, she immigrated to the Land of Israel and settled in Jerusalem, where she attracted a small group of followers.
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In her final years, she made a religious tour of Syria Palaestina and Jerusalem, during which ancient tradition claims that she discovered the True Cross.
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About 1159, he went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where he experienced a spiritual crisis and conversion in Jerusalem that turned him away from worldly life.
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; Hebrew: הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הָעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם, romanized: HaUniversita HaIvrit b'Yerushalayim) is an Israeli public research university based in Jerusalem.
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the Great Sanhedrin met in the Temple in Jerusalem
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; Hebrew: הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הָעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם, romanized: HaUniversita HaIvrit b'Yerushalayim) is an Israeli public research university based in Jerusalem.
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1. Jerusalem (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox
125,156 dunams (125.156 km2; 48.323 sq mi)
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In 2024 Jerusalem had a population of 1,050,153.
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Its origins trace back to around 3000 BCE, with the first settlement near the Gihon Spring.
Infobox, Elevation
754 m (2,474 ft)
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31°46′44″N 35°13′32″E / 31.77889°N 35.22556°E
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In 2024 Jerusalem had a population of 1,050,153.
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GeoNamescities500 record 281184
31.76904 35.21633 P PPLA IL 06 971800 786 Asia/Jerusalem
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 786 m
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Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 31.75, 35.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 31.75, 35.25
31.75 35.25 Csa
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Wikidata: Jerusalem
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