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Jerusalem ( / dʒ ə ˈ r uː s əl ə m / ; Hebrew : יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Yerushaláyim ; Arabic : القُدس Al‑Quds ) [note 2] is a city in Western Asia . Situated on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea , it is one of the oldest cities in the world and is considered to be a holy city for the three major Abrahamic religions : Judaism , Christianity , and Islam . Both Israelis and Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital , as Israel maintains its primary governmental institutio
Throughout its long history , Jerusalem has been destroyed at least twice, besieged 23 times , captured and recaptured 44 times, and attacked 52 times. [6] The part of Jerusalem called the City of David shows first signs of settlement in the 4th millennium BCE, in the shape of encampments of nomadic shepherds. [7] During the Canaanite period (14th century BCE), Jerusalem was named as Urusalim on ancient Egyptian tablets, probably meaning "City of Shalem " after a Canaanite deity . During the Israelite perio
According to the Hebrew Bible , King David conquered the city from the Jebusites and established it as the capital of the United Kingdom of Israel , and his son, King Solomon , commissioned the building of the First Temple . [note 5] Modern scholars argue that Jews branched out of the Canaanite peoples and culture through the development of a distinct monolatrous —and later monotheistic —religion centred on El / Yahweh . [16] [17] [18] These foundational events, straddling the dawn of the 1st millennium BCE
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