The Damascus Gate is one of the main Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located in the wall on the city's northwest side and connects to a highway...
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seven gates at the time of Suleiman were, clockwise and by their current name: the Damascus Gate; Herod's Gate; Lions' Gate; Golden Gate; Dung Gate; Zion...
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Damascus (/dəˈmæskəs/, UK also /dəˈmɑːskəs/ də-MAH-skəs; Arabic: دِمَشق, romanized: Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current...
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The siege of Damascus (634) lasted from 21 August to 19 September 634 before the city fell to the Rashidun Caliphate. Damascus was the first major city...
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The old city of Damascus (Arabic: دِمَشْق ٱلْقَدِيمَة, romanized: Dimašq al-Qadīmah) is the historic city centre of Damascus, Syria. The old city, which...
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Old City of Jerusalem (section Gates)
extending from the Lions' Gate in the east, along the northern wall of the Temple Mount in the south, to the Western Wall – Damascus Gate route in the west....
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current record holder, the Bawabet Dimashq (Damascus Gate) Restaurant, which opened in 2002 in Damascus, Syria, with just over 6,000 seats. The restaurant...
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eastern gate of the city, which a second tradition holds to be the site of his martyrdom, rather than the northern location outside Damascus Gate (for the...
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distance to the east of the Damascus Gate. Its elevation is 755 meters above sea level. Herod's Gate is the Christian name of the gate from the 16th or 17th...
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The Citadel of Damascus (Arabic: قلعة دمشق, romanized: Qalʿat Dimašq) is a large medieval fortified palace and citadel in Damascus, Syria. It is part...
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south, bordering on the Jewish and Armenian Quarters, as far as the Damascus Gate in the east, where it borders on the Muslim Quarter. The Christian quarter...
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the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem was selected for the clock tower indicates the gate's importance at the time, even more than the Damascus Gate. The clock...
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Patriarchate between the New Gate and the Damascus Gate for a park.[citation needed] In the current urban layout of Jerusalem the New Gate provides the quickest...
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feet). The walls contain 34 watchtowers and seven main gates open for traffic, with two minor gates reopened by archaeologists. In 1981, the Jerusalem walls...
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Bab Tuma (redirect from Saint Thomas's Gate)
romanized: Bāb Tūmā, meaning: "Gate of Thomas") is an area of the Old City of Damascus in Syria, and is also the name of one of the seven gates inside the historical...
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and archeologist who is known for her novels, including A Beggar at Damascus Gate. Zahran was born in Ramallah in 1933. She graduated from Columbia University...
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A city gate is a gate which is, or was, set within a city wall. It is a type of fortified gateway. City gates were traditionally built to provide a point...
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Shabtai ordered the removal of barricades preventing access to the Damascus Gate in East Jerusalem after violent protests. Following the 2021 Mount Meron...
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expanded margins of the city. The two cardines converged near the Damascus Gate, and a semicircular piazza covered the remaining space; in the piazza...
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Zedekiah's Cave lies between Damascus Gate and Herod's Gate, or precisely, some 152 metres (499 ft) to the left of Damascus Gate as one enters the Old City...
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the road to Damascus. Skull Hill and the Garden Tomb are located in close proximity to the Damascus road, about 200 m. from Damascus Gate. Contemporary...
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Bawabet Dimashq (category Restaurants in Damascus)
بوابة دمشق, romanized: Bawābat Dimashq, lit. 'Damascus Gate'), is a family owned restaurant in Damascus, Syria, that opened in 2002. It is the largest...
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Postern (redirect from Postern gate)
west of the Damascus Gate; the postern of the Tanners' Gate; and the postern of the Madeleine at Herod's Gate. Right of the Golden Gate is a small postern...
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by Philip Roth. Stone returned to the complex political novel with Damascus Gate (1998), about a man with messianic delusions caught up in a terrorist...
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Bab al-Saghir (category Gates of Damascus)
al-Ṣaghīr, lit. 'Small Gate') may refer to one of the seven gates in the Old City of Damascus, and street in the modern city of Damascus, Syria. It has qubūr...
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Arab civilians. On December 12, Irgun militants placed a bomb at the Damascus Gate that killed 20 people. 1947 Aleppo pogrom 1947 Manama pogrom 1947–1948...
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Saint Stephen's Gate may refer to either of two gates of Jerusalem: Damascus Gate prior to the 14th century Lions' Gate since the 14th century This disambiguation...
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River Jordan). The primary roads led to the gates of the Old City, such as the Jaffa Gate and the Damascus Gate. It was along these roads that the city grew...
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and extends from the Lions' Gate in the east, along the northern wall of the Temple Mount in the south, to the Damascus Gate—Western Wall route in the west...
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The Cardo originated during the Late Roman period, beginning at the Damascus Gate it split into two main branches, the eastern Cardo following the route...
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