• the Jaffa Road (pictured) is one of the oldest and longest streets in Jerusalem?
• the Palestinian village of Nabi Samwil, near Jerusalem, is regarded by Muslims, Jews and Christians alike as a holy site for containing the tomb of Samuel?
• the Palestinian town of Jifna, believed to be the biblical Gophna, was a Roman regional capital and considered the second most important town in Iudaea after Jerusalem?
• the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Mamilla (pictured) has been under construction for the last 37 years, even though it is only 0.1 square kilometres large?
• the Madaba Map is a large Byzantine mosaic from circa 550 CE that depicts the topography of Jerusalem and surrounding areas in great detail?
  
• the Ramban Synagogue, founded by Nahmanides in 1267, is the oldest active synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem?
• though many troubadours wrote about the Crusades and either encouraged or mocked them as politics dictated, the jongleur Peirol was one of the few to actually travel to the Holy Land, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1221?
• there are multiple theories why LMLK seals were stamped on the handles of large storage jars in and around Jerusalem circa 700 BC?
• the story of Kamsa and Bar Kamsa is the most famous Jewish legend regarding the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem?
• the octagonal Roof-top synagogue (cupola pictured) in Hove, England, was built as a replica of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock?
• the Jerusalem city hall at Safra Square (pictured) was rebuilt in 1993 with help from Brazilian-Lebanese financier Edmond J. Safra?
• in 1100 Warner of Grez took control of Jerusalem to ensure that Baldwin of Boulogne would succeed Godfrey of Bouillon as King of Jerusalem?
• Holy Land USA (pictured), a Connecticut theme park intended to replicate Bethlehem and Jerusalem of the biblical era, once attracted more than 40,000 visitors annually?
• Birket Israel, once the largest reservoir in Jerusalem, is now a parking lot?
• millwrights from Canterbury, Kent, built Moses Montefiore Windmill (pictured) in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1857?
• Jerusalem's Street of the Prophets was originally called "Street of the Hospitals" and "Street of the Consuls"?
• Motza (pictured), founded in 1859, was the first modern village established near Jerusalem?
• Sabil Abu Nabbut (pictured) was a public fountain built by Ottoman governor Muhammad Abu Nabbut in 1812 to facilitate the journey between Jaffa and Jerusalem?
• groundbreaking on Christ's Resurrection Church in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1934 was marked by the placement of a symbolic stone brought from Jerusalem's Mount of Olives?
• during the Roman Empire in Palestine, the road that connected Lydda to Jerusalem passed through Barfiliya?
• a seam (pictured) along the eastern wall of the Temple Mount may be a clue to the location of the Acra, a Seleucid citadel in ancient Jerusalem?
• Sami Hadawi, author of works on the land rights of Palestinian refugees, was exiled by Israel in 1948 and denied permission to have his remains returned to his native Jerusalem for burial in 2004?
• Jerusalem's Kanfei Nesharim Street is long and wide and straight like a runway, because it was originally built as one?

Facts on topics related to Jerusalem

Israel

• "A-Ba-Ni-Bi", Israel's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978, was performed partly in the Hebrew equivalent of Pig Latin?
• 20th-century medieval scholar Erika Cheetham interpreted Nostradamus' writings as prophecies of Napoleon, Hitler, and the establishment of modern Israel?
• 39% of Israeli schoolchildren watch the educational television program Bli Sodot in their classroom?
• archaeologist Francis Turville-Petre, discoverer of Neanderthal remains in Israel, was portrayed in works by authors W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood?
• Ariel Sharon named his former party, Shlomtzion, after the newly born daughter of Amos Keinan, co-founder of the Israeli–Palestinian Council?
• fallow deer bones found in the Qesem Cave, Israel, show evidence that humans 400,000 to 200,000 years ago butchered animals to share and cook?
• Israel and China were cultivating military cooperation well before the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992?
• Israel has the highest solar energy use per capita in the world?
• Israel is the world's largest recipient of United States overseas military assistance?
• Israel's deadliest traffic accident took place in December 2008 when a tourists' coach en route to the resort town of Eilat plunged into a ravine?

Damascus

• As'ad Pasha al-Azm, governor of Damascus under the Ottoman Empire for 14 years, ordered the construction of the Azm Palace and Khan As'ad Pasha?
• Damask, a fabric with a rich pattern formed by weaving got its name from ornamental silk fabrics from Damascus?
• damask, a fabric with a rich pattern formed by weaving, got its name from ornamental silk fabrics from Damascus, Syria?
• Jobar, a suburb of Damascus, is home to the 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue?
• Khan As'ad Pasha (pictured), built by Damascus governor As'ad Pasha al-Azem, is the largest khan in the city?
• Khan al-Harir, built by Darwish Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Damascus, was the first great caravanserai to be built inside the old city walls of Damascus?
• between 1725 and 1783, members of the prominent Damascene family al-Azm held power as walis in Damascus, Syria, for 47 years?
• in 1971, a Damascus school founded by Ozar Hatorah, a Jewish religious education organisation, was named by Syria as having the highest grades in the country?
• the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbany wanted a burial in Damascus because it was the place that gave him "the alphabet of Jasmine"?
• the Battle of Damascus was the final action of the Allied advance on Damascus in Syria during the Syria-Lebanon campaign in World War II?

Beirut

• Bulgarian television director Hacho Boyadzhiev once worked as a stoker on a Beirut–Marseille steamship?
• the Beirut-born, American blues guitarist Otis Grand was voted 'Best UK Blues Guitarist' seven years running (1990–1996) by the British Blues Connection magazine?

Amman

• Amman's Mango House (pictured) was built in separate halves for the two brothers who lived there?
• Al-Maquar, which contains the royal residence of Jordan, was built on the camp-site for the armies of the Arab Revolt, who captured Amman in 1918?
• Jabal Amman is one of the seven original hills that Amman, Jordan was built on during the Neolithic period?
• while the 126.8-metre (416 ft) Raghadan Flagpole in Amman is both earthquake- and weather-resistant, excessive noise means the flag must be lowered during high winds?

Ankara

• it was recently discovered that about 10,000 Muslim graves in Cebeci Asri Cemetery, Ankara, Turkey were not oriented in the direction required by Islam?

Baku

• Martyrs' Lane in Baku, Azerbaijan, is dedicated to those killed by the Red Army during Black January and later to those killed in Nagorno-Karabakh War?
• the Saviour's Lutheran Church in Baku, Azerbaijan (pictured) survived Joseph Stalin's rule by promising to pray for him?
• the historical Bibi-Heybat Mosque near Baku, Azerbaijan, (pictured), destroyed in 1934 as a result of the Soviet anti-religious campaign, was reopened in 1997 at the same location after the country gained independence?

East Jerusalem

• the Palestinians consider the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabel Mukaber as the site of their future capital?

Kingdom of Jerusalem

• the noble house of Ibelin was the primary beneficiary of the War of the Lombards, a civil war in the Kingdom of Jerusalem?
• the Council of Nablus, held in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1120, established punishments for adultery, bigamy, homosexuality, and sexual relations with Muslims?
• the Pactum Warmundi established autonomous Venetian communes within the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem?