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JERUSALEM, The Old City
Walls and Gates of Jerusalem
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1 Damascus Gate
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2 Damascus Gate
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3 Damascus Gate
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4 Damascus Gate
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5 Damascus Gate
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6 Damascus Gate
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7 Dung Gate
Bab Silwan
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8 Golden Gate
Bab El-Rahmeh
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9 The Walls and the Gates of Jerusalem
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10 Golden Gate
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11 Jaffa Gate
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12 Jaffa Gate
Two Turkish tombs
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13 Jaffa Gate
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14 Hasmonean wall
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15 Tanner's Gate
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16 Zion Gate
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17 Zion Gate
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18 Zion Gate
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19 Zion Gate
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20 Zion Gate
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21 New Gate
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22 Lions' Gate
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23 Lions' Gate
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24 Citadel and Western City Wall
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25 Herod's Gate
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26 Herod's Gate
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27 Herod's Gate
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28 Herod's Gate
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29 Herod's Gate
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30 Herod's Gate
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31 Herod's Gate
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32 Damascus Gate
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 to which the road begins here. The road also leads to Damascus, therefore its name in English. The Arabic name, Bab el-Amud,refers to the column (amud) that stood in the gate in Roman times, from which distances were measured throughout the country.'))
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 neighborhood which was where, today, stands the Western Wall Plaza. Since the second century CE, the refuse of the city has been carted through this gate to be dumped outside; hence the name of the gate.'))
 The gate was used by the Turkish through the period of the Muslims in the Seventh Century. There are two entrance ways to the gate: one is called The Gate of Repentance and one is called the Gate of Mercy. According to the Christians, Jesus walked through this gate to Jerusalem and therefore it is referred to as The Golden Gate. According to Jewish tradition, the Messiah will come through this gate. This is the reason that before the gate, a cemetery of Muslims exists, for it is forbidden for the high priest to go through a cemetery. The Christians believe that this is where the Byzantine Emperor, Hercules, came in after the defeat of the Muslims'))
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 had rebuild the city walls. They were supposedly murdered either because the Sultan wanted to be sure they could never build anything more impressive for anyone else, or because he was angered by their failure to include Mount Zion within the walls. In fact they belong to a peaceful burger and his wife.'))
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, because iit is nearby the place known asd King David\'s Tomb'))
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, set on either side of the gate.'))
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 the name of the hill opposite on which is a cemetery.'))
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