At first the kingdom was little more than a loose collection of towns and cities captured during the crusade, but at its height in the mid-12th century the kingdom roughly encompassed the territory of ...
Although Jerusalem is known primarily for its religious significance, the city is also home to many artistic and cultural venues. The Israel Museum attracts nearly one million visitors a year, approxi ...
International statusWhile the international community regards East Jerusalem, including the entire Old City, as part of the occupied Palestinian territories, neither part, West or East Jerusalem, is r ...
In 538 BCE the Persian King Cyrus the Great invited the Jews of Babylon to return to Judah to rebuild the Temple. Construction of the Second Temple was completed in 516 BCE, during the reign of Darius ...
A city called Ru?alim in the Execration texts of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (c. 19th century BCE) is widely, but not universally, identified as Jerusalem. Jerusalem is called Uru?alim in the Amarna ...
The crusaders had attempted to negotiate with the Fatimids during their march to Jerusalem, but to no avail. After the crusaders captured Jerusalem from the Fatimids, they learned of a Fatimid army ab ...
The origin of the Crusades in general, and particularly that of the First Crusade, is widely debated among historians. The Crusades are most commonly linked to the political and social situation in 11 ...
During the time of Pope Urban II, and the First Crusade, there began a significant struggle for power to appoint secular rulers and churchmen. The origins of the investiture controversy, according to ...
In various languages the Holy Roman Empire was known as: Latin: Sacrum Imperium Romanum, German: Heiliges R?misches Reich, Italian: Sacro Romano Impero, Czech: Svatá ?í?e ?ímská, Slovene: Svet ...
As Roman domain expanded, a cultural and linguistic division appeared between the mainly Greek-speaking eastern provinces which had formed the highly urbanized Hellenistic civilization and the western ...
Although the Byzantine Empire had remained a strong and powerful entity in the Middle Ages, the Empire began to decline under the reign of the militarily incompetent Constantine IX and again under Con ...
The Fatimid Caliphate's religious ideology originated in an Ismaili Shia movement launched in Syria by the eighth Imam Abd Allah al-Akbar. He claimed descent through Ismail, the seventh Shia imam, fro ...
One or possibly two megalithic dolmen have been found in Hejaz.History Evidence suggests that the northern part of Hejaz was part of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea.The Hejaz includes both the Cr ...
The Seljuqs originated from the Qynyk branch of the Oghuz Turks who in the 9th century lived on the periphery of the Muslim world, north of the Caspian and Aral seas in their Yabghu Khaganate of the O ...
Archeological evidence suggests that the first settlement was established near Gihon Spring between 4500–3500 BCE. The first known mention of the city was in c. 2000 BCE in the Middle Kingdom Egyptia ...
