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
ancient Jerusalem	2
Hierusalem	1
Jerusalem (biblical Salem)	1
Jerusalem (for the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem)	1
Jerusalem (implicitly referenced as capital)	1
Jerusalem (partly, in some traditions)	1
Jerusalem (traditional view)	1
Jerusalem District	1
Jerusalem urban area	1
Old City of Jerusalem	1
Urusalim	1
Western Jerusalem	1

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.

Quaker City excursion of 1867 → visitedPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ

Bechor-Shalom Sheetrit → workLocation → Jerusalem ⓘ

Eliezer Kaplan → workLocation → Jerusalem ⓘ

Eliyahu Sasson → workLocation → Jerusalem ⓘ

Erich Mendelsohn → workLocation → Jerusalem ⓘ

Haim-Moshe Shapira → workLocation → Jerusalem ⓘ

Meir Argov → workLocation → Jerusalem ⓘ

Sari Nusseibeh → workLocation → Jerusalem ⓘ

Yehuda Leib Fishman (Maimon) → workLocation → Jerusalem ⓘ

Yosef Sprinzak → workLocation → Jerusalem ⓘ

Sons of Korah → worshipCenter → Jerusalem ⓘ