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    Aelia Capitolina (Latin: Colonia Aelia Capitolina [kɔˈloːni.a ˈae̯li.a kapɪtoːˈliːna]) was a Roman colony founded during the Roman emperor Hadrian's visit...
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  • The Temple of Venus in Aelia Capitolina was a temple in Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem), dedicated to the Goddess Venus. The temple was founded on the order...
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    changes in administrative and economic life; constructed the colony of Aelia Capitolina over the destroyed city of Jerusalem; and erected a place of worship...
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    revolt, Jerusalem was rebuilt as a Roman colony under the name of Aelia Capitolina, and Judaea was renamed Syria Palaestina, a term occasionally used...
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  • of Newcastle upon Tyne, while Aelia Capitolina was a Roman colony built on the ruins of Jerusalem. On the coins of Aelia in 224 BC, the 'H' may stands...
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    Jerusalem and decides to rebuild it as a city dedicated to Jupiter called Aelia Capitolina 131: An additional legion, Legio VI Ferrata, was stationed in the city...
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  • Jerusalem was left in total ruin, and a new city built nearby called Aelia Capitolina. These gentile bishops (Jews were excluded from the city except for...
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    colony. ...In Palestine there are two colonies, those of Caesarea and Aelia Capitolina; but neither of these enjoy Italian privileges. c. 200: Tertullian...
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    without protective walls for over two centuries. The pagan Roman city, Aelia Capitolina, which was built after 130 by Emperor Hadrian, was at first left without...
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    the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. The city was renamed Aelia Capitolina and rebuilt as a Roman colony after the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136...
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    against Hadrian, a revolt connected with the renaming of Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina. After four years of devastating warfare, the uprising was suppressed...
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    vicinity of Jerusalem, which the Romans rebuilt into the pagan colony of Aelia Capitolina, and the province of Judaea was renamed Syria Palaestina. Collectively...
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    Jerusalem's ruins. the city was later re-founded as the Roman colony of Aelia Capitolina. Foreign cults were introduced and Jews were forbidden entry. This...
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    main east-west routes (Decumanus Maximus) through the Roman city of Aelia Capitolina, as built by Hadrian. Standard Roman city design places the main east-west...
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    and the district saw a decline in population. The Roman colony of Aelia Capitolina, which was built on the ruins of Jerusalem, remained a backwater for...
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    to a Christian city. The Byzantine rule developed the Roman colony Aelia Capitolina in Jerusalem, turning it into a central Christian city from a religious...
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    slavery, or forced to flee. Banished from Jerusalem, which was renamed Aelia Capitolina, the Jewish population now centered on Galilee, initially at Yavneh...
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    founded on the ruins of Jerusalem since the First Revolt of 70 CE, named Aelia Capitolina. The creation of Syria Palaestina from the ruins of Judaea, whose name...
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    flattened Jerusalem, and the city was later rebuilt as the Roman colony of Aelia Capitolina, in which Jews were forbidden to live. According to the Jewish-Roman...
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  • renamed Aelia Capitolina by Hadrian. In 135, the Metropolitan of Caesarea appointed Marcus as the first bishop of the renamed Church of Aelia Capitolina. He...
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  • of Antoninus Pius (c. AD 148) though Marcus was appointed bishop of Aelia Capitolina in 135 by the Metropolitan of Caesarea. He is also mentioned in the...
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    Hadrian decided to build a Roman colony in its place, naming it Colonia Aelia Capitolina, after the Roman deities Jupiter, Juno and Minerva (the Capitoline...
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    Hadrian in the 2nd century AD as the flooring of the eastern forum of Aelia Capitolina. Before Hadrian's changes, the area had been a large open-air pool...
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  • Meshorer, Ya'akov, The Coinage of Aelia Capitolina, 1989, Jerusalem: The Israel Museum Press, 1989 DE CHAMBRUN comte, Aelia, une étude d'esthétique, 1890...
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    (Dozhhûkht-Kang), which is attested in Shahnameh. It means "[the] accursed Kang". Aelia Capitolina was the Roman name given to Jerusalem in the 2nd century, after the...
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    doi:10.1080/09018328.2016.1122292. Weksler-Bdolah, Shlomit (2019). Aelia Capitolina – Jerusalem in the Roman Period: In Light of Archaeological Research...
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    today's Ottoman gate, is inscribed the city's Roman name after 130 CE, Aelia Capitolina. Until the latest excavations (1979–1984), some researchers believed...
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    city was rebuilt by the Emperor Hadrian around 130, under the name Aelia Capitolina. In the Byzantine period Jerusalem was extended southwards and again...
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    City of David 1000 BCE Second Temple Period 538 BCE–70 CE Aelia Capitolina 130–325 CE Byzantine 325–638 CE Early Muslim 638–1099 Crusader 1099–1187 Late...
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    homeland, but this theory is debated. Jerusalem was re-established as the Aelia Capitolina, a greatly diminished military colony with perhaps no more than 4,000...
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