Damascus Gate
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/38524
- Note
- "Damascus Gate (Arabic: باب العامود‎, romanized: Bāb al-ʿĀmūd, Hebrew: שער שכם, Sha´ar Sh´khem) is one of the main entrances to the Old City of Jerusalem. 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 Damascus Gate, and its modern Hebrew name, Sha´ar Shkhem (שער שכם), meaning Shechem Gate, or Nablus Gate. Of its Arabic names, Bab al-Nasr (باب النصر) means "gate of victory," and Bab al-Amud (باب العامود) means "gate of the column." The latter name, 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." - (en.wikipedia.org 28.01.2020)
- Latitude
- 31.781639099121
- Longitude
- 35.230499267578
- Time zone
- Asia/Hebron
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