The Damascus Gate is one of the main Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem.[1] It is located in the wall on the city's northwest side and connects to a highway leading out to Nablus, which in the Hebrew Bible was called Shechem or Sichem, and from there, in times past, to the capital of Syria, Damascus; as such, its modern English name is the Damascus Gate, and its modern Hebrew name is Sha'ar Shkhem (שער שכם), meaning Shechem Gate, or in modern terms Nablus Gate.[1][2] Of its historic Arabic names, Bāb al-Naṣr (باب النصر) means "gate of victory", and the current one, Bāb al-ʿĀmūd (باب العامود), means "gate of the column".[1] The latter, in use continuously since at least as early as the 10th century, preserves the memory of a Roman column towering over the square behind the gate and dating to the 2nd century AD.[1][3]
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^Adrian J. Boas (2001). Jerusalem in the time of the crusades: society, landscape, and art in the Holy City under Frankish rule (Illustrated, reprint ed.). Routledge. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-415-23000-1.
^Margoliouth, David Samuel (2010). Cairo, Jerusalem & Damascus: Three Chief Cities of the Egyptian Sultans. Walter S. S. Tyrwhitt, illustrator. Cosimo, Inc. p. 329. ISBN 978-1-61640-065-1.
The DamascusGate 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...
seven gates at the time of Suleiman were, clockwise and by their current name: the DamascusGate; Herod's Gate; Lions' Gate; Golden Gate; Dung Gate; Zion...
Damascus (/dəˈmæskəs/ də-MASK-əs, UK also /dəˈmɑːskəs/ də-MAH-skəs; Arabic: دِمَشق, romanized: Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest...
extending from the Lions' Gate in the east, along the northern wall of the Temple Mount in the south, to the Western Wall – DamascusGate route in the west....
The old city of Damascus (Arabic: دِمَشْق ٱلْقَدِيمَة, romanized: Dimašq al-Qadīmah) is the historic city centre of Damascus, Syria. The old city, which...
eastern gate of the city, which a second tradition holds to be the site of his martyrdom, rather than the northern location outside DamascusGate (for the...
current record holder, the Bawabet Dimashq (DamascusGate) Restaurant, which opened in 2002 in Damascus, Syria, with just over 6,000 seats. The restaurant...
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...
The Citadel of Damascus (Arabic: قلعة دمشق, romanized: Qalʿat Dimašq) is a large medieval fortified palace and citadel in Damascus, Syria. It is part...
south, bordering on the Jewish and Armenian Quarters, as far as the DamascusGate in the east, where it borders on the Muslim Quarter. The Christian quarter...
the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem was selected for the clock tower indicates the gate's importance at the time, even more than the DamascusGate. The clock...
Patriarchate between the New Gate and the DamascusGate for a park.[citation needed] In the current urban layout of Jerusalem the New Gate provides the quickest...
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...
was the first to publish a proposal that the rocky knoll north of DamascusGate was the biblical Golgotha. He relied heavily on the research of Edward...
to undermine the city's fortifications in the area between DamascusGate and Herod's Gate, near where the Crusaders broke into the town in 1099. The defenders...
Shabtai ordered the removal of barricades preventing access to the DamascusGate in East Jerusalem after violent protests. Following the 2021 Mount Meron...
الشاوش) is a large and widespread Palestinian family originated from the DamascusGate neighbourhood of East Jerusalem. The Shawish surname has several variations...
the road to Damascus. Skull Hill and the Garden Tomb are located in close proximity to the Damascus road, about 200 m. from DamascusGate. Contemporary...
expanded margins of the city. The two cardines converged near the DamascusGate, and a semicircular piazza covered the remaining space; in the piazza...
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...
west of the DamascusGate; 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...
romanized: al-Jāmiʿ al-Umawī), also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, located in the old city of Damascus, the capital of Syria, is one of the largest and oldest...
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