Preliminary Report on Excavations at the Damascus Gate Jerusalem, 1964–6

Hennessy, J. B.

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“…One gate that has been investigated archaeologically is St Stephen's (or the Damascus or Nablus) Gate, where the remains of the Crusader barbican may also still be seen. Excavations by the British School of Archaeology in the 1960s showed that below the Ottoman gate are the remains of the original Roman one, built between the mid-1 st and mid-3 rd centuries with a central archway flanked by a pair of smaller pedestrian gates and massive quadrangular towers 18 . By the 12 th century, only the central archway was in use.…”

Section: The City's Defencesmentioning

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Jerusalem 1099

Pringle¹

2022

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By the time the Crusaders took Jerusalem, it had lost virtually all its native residents. Much of the Christian population had either fled or been expelled during the Frankish advance on the city and in the final onslaught remaining Muslims and Jews were killed or held for ransom. A major difficulty facing the new rulers of the city, therefore, was how to repopulate it. During the siege, the Crusading army had numbered perhaps over 40,000 people, including women and children; but once the city was taken and Crusading vows fulfilled, the army quickly dispersed. A year later, King Baldwin I's chaplain, Fulcher of Chartres, remarked that there were no more than 300 knights and as many foot-soldiers distributed between Jerusalem, Jaffa, Ramla and Haifa 2 . The city's population in the early years of the 12 th century may therefore have numbered hundreds rather than thousands.

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Section: The City's Defencesmentioning

confidence: 99%