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.

Sari Nusseibeh → placeOfBirth → Jerusalem ⓘ

Sirhan Sirhan → placeOfBirth → Jerusalem ⓘ

Suha Arafat → placeOfBirth → Jerusalem ⓘ

Yitzhak Rabin → placeOfBirth → Jerusalem ⓘ

Yusuf al-Khalidi → placeOfBirth → Jerusalem ⓘ

Benzion Netanyahu → placeOfDeath → Jerusalem ⓘ

Berl Katznelson → placeOfDeath → Jerusalem ⓘ

Eliyahu Dobkin → placeOfDeath → Jerusalem ⓘ

Golda Meir → placeOfDeath → Jerusalem ⓘ

Hannah Goslar → placeOfDeath → Jerusalem ⓘ

this entity surface form: Jerusalem, Israel

Mariamne I → placeOfDeath → Jerusalem ⓘ

Menachem Ussishkin → placeOfDeath → Jerusalem ⓘ

Moshe Sharett → placeOfDeath → Jerusalem ⓘ

Yitzhak-Meir Levin → placeOfDeath → Jerusalem ⓘ

Zerach Warhaftig → placeOfDeath → Jerusalem ⓘ

Book of Sirach → placeOfOrigin → Jerusalem ⓘ

Munir Sirhan → placeOfOrigin → Jerusalem ⓘ

Yusuf al-Khalidi → placeOfOrigin → Jerusalem ⓘ

Mariamne II → placeOfResidence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Arab–Israeli conflict → primaryDisputedTerritories → Jerusalem ⓘ

this entity surface form: East Jerusalem

creationOfStateOfIsrael → proclaimedCapitalInDeclaration → Jerusalem ⓘ

this entity surface form: Jerusalem (implicitly referenced as capital)

United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine → proposedInternationalRegimeFor → Jerusalem ⓘ

Masjid al-Qiblatayn → qiblaChangedFrom → Jerusalem ⓘ

Zion → refersTo → Jerusalem ⓘ

Yusuf al-Khalidi → regionOfActivity → Jerusalem ⓘ

Yekonyah → reignLocation → Jerusalem ⓘ

Zionism → relatedPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ

land of Moriah → relatedPlace → Jerusalem ⓘ

Tisha BAv → relatedTo → Jerusalem ⓘ

subject surface form: Tisha B'Av

Palestinian Jews → religiousCenter → Jerusalem ⓘ

Abba Ahimeir → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Bathsheba → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Benjamin Netanyahu → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Benzion Netanyahu → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Berl Katznelson → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Brian Cohen in Monty Python’s Life of Brian → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

subject surface form: Brian Cohen

Cleopatra of Jerusalem → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Daniel Barenboim → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

David Ben-Gurion → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

David Grün → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Elena Bashkirova → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Eliyahu Dobkin → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Golda Meir → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Hannah Goslar → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

this entity surface form: Jerusalem, Israel

Herod Agrippa I → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Joshua son of Jehozadak → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Mariamne I → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Menachem Begin → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Menachem Ussishkin → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ

Moshe Kol → residence → Jerusalem ⓘ