Jerusalem

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capital city city holy city

Jerusalem is an ancient and historically significant city in the Middle East that serves as a major religious and cultural center for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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Observed surface forms (15)

Surface form Occurrences
East Jerusalem 6
Jerusalem, Israel 4
City of David 3

Statements (55)

Predicate Object
instanceOf capital city ⓘ
city ⓘ
holy city ⓘ
ancientName Jebus ⓘ
Jerusalem self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Urusalim
capitalOf Israel ⓘ
claimedBy Israel ⓘ
State of Palestine ⓘ
climate Mediterranean climate ⓘ
continent Asia ⓘ
country Israel ⓘ
disputedBy State of Palestine ⓘ
earliestKnownReference 2nd millennium BCE ⓘ
elevation approximately 754 meters above sea level ⓘ
foundedInPeriod ancient times ⓘ
function cultural center ⓘ
political center of Israel ⓘ
religious center ⓘ
governedBy Jerusalem Municipality ⓘ
hasBodyOfWater Hinnom Valley ⓘ
Kidron Valley ⓘ
hasPart Al-Aqsa Mosque ⓘ
Church of the Holy Sepulchre ⓘ
Jerusalem self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: City of David

Dome of the Rock ⓘ
East Jerusalem ⓘ
Israel Museum ⓘ
Knesset ⓘ
Mount of Olives ⓘ
Old City of Jerusalem UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ
surface form: Old City of Jerusalem

Temple Mount ⓘ
West Jerusalem ⓘ
Western Wall ⓘ
YadVashem ⓘ
surface form: Yad Vashem
languageMajority Hebrew ⓘ
languageSignificantMinority Arabic ⓘ
locatedIn Levant region ⓘ
surface form: Levant

Middle East ⓘ
Israel ⓘ
surface form: State of Israel
mayorTitle Mayor of Jerusalem ⓘ
notableHill Mount Scopus ⓘ
Zion ⓘ
surface form: Mount Zion
partOf Judean Mountains ⓘ
primaryReligionGroups Christianity ⓘ
surface form: Christians

Jews ⓘ
Muslims ⓘ
religiousSignificanceFor Christianity ⓘ
Islam ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ
seatOfGovernmentOf Israel ⓘ
status disputed ⓘ
timeZone Eastern European Time ⓘ
surface form: Israel Standard Time
timeZoneDST Israel Daylight Time ⓘ
UNESCOStatus Old City of Jerusalem UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ
surface form: Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls
UNESCOWorldHeritageStatus in danger ⓘ

Referenced by (461)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Simon bar Giora → activeIn → Jerusalem ⓘ
Book of Jeremiah → addresses → Jerusalem ⓘ
Jerusalem → ancientName → Jerusalem self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Urusalim
subject surface form: Sant’Anna
Buraq → associatedPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Helena → associatedWith → Jerusalem ⓘ
James the Just → associatedWith → Jerusalem ⓘ
Nehemiah → associatedWith → Jerusalem ⓘ
Palm Sunday → associatedWith → Jerusalem ⓘ
Saint Joachim → associatedWith → Jerusalem ⓘ
Saint Stephen → associatedWith → Jerusalem ⓘ
Jebusites → associatedWithCity → Jerusalem ⓘ
Jeremiah → associatedWithCity → Jerusalem ⓘ
Zion → associatedWithCity → Jerusalem ⓘ
this entity surface form: ancient Jerusalem
John Mark → associatedWithPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Maccabees → associatedWithPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Rabbi Akiva → associatedWithPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Sulayman → associatedWithPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
subject surface form: Zechariah
Zerubbabel → associatedWithPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Isaac Luria → birthPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
subject surface form: Jehoiachin
Josiah → birthPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Reuven Rivlin → birthPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Alexander Jannaeus → burialPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Aristobulus I → burialPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Eliyahu Dobkin → burialPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Herod Agrippa I → burialPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Jehoiakim → burialPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Jesus Christ → burialPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Menachem Ussishkin → burialPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Oskar Schindler → burialPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi → burialPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Ze'ev Jabotinsky → burialPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ
Alexander Jannaeus → capital → Jerusalem ⓘ
Antigonus II Mattathias → capital → Jerusalem ⓘ