Category:Jerusalem

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Panorama with view from the Mount of Olives to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount with the Dome of the Rock

Jerusalem (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Yerushalayim; Arabic القدس al-Quds (ash-Sharif) "the Holy"; Greek: Ἱεροσόλυμα Hierosólyma, the "Holy Salem") is a town situated between the Dead Sea, 428 m below sea level, and the Mediterranean Sea at an altitude of 606-826 m above sea level in the mountains of Judea in the Holy Land in present-day Israel. It is of central spiritual and religious importance for the monotheistic Abrahamic religions. Jerusalem is first mentioned in the Old Testament. However, the oldest traces of human settlement date back to around 5000 BC.