The siege of Jerusalem of 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), in which the Roman army led by future emperor Titus besieged...
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Kingdom of Jerusalem. The siege quickly became legendary and in the 12th century it was the subject of the Chanson de Jérusalem, a major chanson de geste in...
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The Assyrian siege of Jerusalem (circa 701 BC) was an aborted siege of Jerusalem, then capital of the Kingdom of Judah, carried out by Sennacherib, king...
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resistance: 207 or after a siege and breaching of the wall with artillery. Following the Sasanians capture of Jerusalem tens of thousands of Byzantine...
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in a siege in 1302, the Crusaders no longer controlled any part of the Holy Land. In 1187, Saladin conquered much of the Kingdom of Jerusalem (also called...
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including all of Jerusalem. On 27 June 1967, Israel expanded the municipal boundaries of West Jerusalem so as to include approximately 70 km2 (27.0 sq mi)...
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commanded by Eleazar ben Ya'ir, and in 70 AD they were joined by additional Sicarii and their families expelled from Jerusalem by the Jewish population with whom...
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sources conserving the story are summarized in Hugues Vincent, F. M. Abel, Jérusalem Nouvelle Archived 27 March 2024 at the Wayback Machine, 1914 tome 2, pp...
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Jewish-Roman War, with the Judean rebellion led by Simon Bar Giora 70 CE: Siege of Jerusalem (70) Titus, eldest son of Emperor Vespasian, ends the major portion...
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Kedar quotes his numbers from Joshua Prawer, Histoire du royaume latin de Jérusalem, tr. G. Nahon, Paris, 1969, vol. 1, pp. 498, 568–72. Ellenblum, pg. 31...
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