Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls' has mentioned 'Gate' in the following places:
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The Bible names the city ruled by King David as the City of David, in Hebrew Ir David, which was identified southeast of the Old City walls, outside the Dung Gate. | WIKI |
Roman gate beneath the Damascus Gate | WIKI |
[4] Suleiman's wall had six gates, to which a seventh, the New Gate, was added in 1887; several other, older gates, have been walled up over the centuries. | WIKI |
The Golden Gate was at first rebuilt and left open by Suleiman's architects, only to be walled up a short while later. | WIKI |
The New Gate was opened in the wall surrounding the Christian Quarter during the 19th century. | WIKI |
"[17][18] A second dedicatory inscription bearing the names of Emperor Justinian and of the same abbot of the Nea Church was discovered in 2017 among the ruins of a pilgrim hostel about a kilometre north of Damascus Gate, which proves the importance of the Nea complex at the time. | WIKI |
The Muslim Quarter (Arabic: xd8xadxd8xa7xd8xb1xd9x8exd8xa9 xd8xa7xd9x84xd9x85xd9x8fxd8xb3xd9x84xd9x90xd9x85xd9x8axd9x86xe2x80x8e, Hxc4x81rat al-Muslimxc4xabn) is the largest and most populous of the four quarters and is situated in the northeastern corner of the Old City, extending from the Lions' Gate in the east, along the northern wall of the Temple Mount in the south, to the Western Wall xe2x80x93 Damascus Gate route in the west. | WIKI |
The Christian Quarter (Arabic: xd8xadxd8xa7xd8xb1xd8xa9 xd8xa7xd9x84xd9x86xd8xb5xd8xa7xd8xb1xd9x89xe2x80x8e, xe1xb8xa8xc4x81rat an-Naxc5x9fxc4x81ra) is situated in the northwestern corner of the Old City, extending from the New Gate in the north, along the western wall of the Old City as far as the Jaffa Gate, along the Jaffa Gate xe2x80x93 Western Wall route in the south, bordering the Jewish and Armenian Quarters, as far as the Damascus Gate in the east, where it borders the Muslim Quarter. | WIKI |
The Jewish Quarter (Hebrew: xd7x94xd7xa8xd7x95xd7x91xd7xa2 xd7x94xd7x99xd7x94xd7x95xd7x93xd7x99xe2x80x8e, HaRova HaYehudi, known colloquially to residents as HaRova, Arabic: xd8xadxd8xa7xd8xb1xd8xa9 xd8xa7xd9x84xd9x8axd9x87xd9x88xd8xafxe2x80x8e, xe1xb8xa8xc4x81rat al-Yahxc5xabd) lies in the southeastern sector of the walled city, and stretches from the Zion Gate in the south, bordering the Armenian Quarter on the west, along the Cardo to Chain Street in the north and extends east to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount. | WIKI |
As to the previously sealed Golden Gate, Suleiman at first opened and rebuilt it, but then walled it up again as well. | WIKI |
The number of operational gates increased to seven after the addition of the New Gate in 1887; a smaller eighth one, the Tanners' Gate, has been opened for visitors after being discovered and unsealed during excavations in the 1990s. | WIKI |
The sealed historic gates comprise four that are at least partially preserved (the double Golden Gate in the eastern wall, and the Single, Triple, and Double Gates in the southern wall), with several other gates discovered by archaeologists of which only traces remain (the Gate of the Essenes on Mount Zion, the gate of Herod's royal palace south of the citadel, and the vague remains of what 19th-century explorers identified as the Gate of the Funerals (Bab al-Jana'iz) or of al-Buraq (Bab al-Buraq) south of the Golden Gate[36]). | WIKI |
Until 1887, each gate was closed before sunset and opened at sunrise. | WIKI |