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ID: 1099967 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1099967			Record Type: administrative

Kotel Hamaʻaravi (ruins)

Coordinates:
Lat: 31 46 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 31.7667 decimal degrees
Long: 035 14 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 35.2333 decimal degrees

Note: Located in the Old City of Jerusalem, noted as a place of prayer and pilgrimage held sacred by the Jewish people; ruins are only remains of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, destroyed in 70 CE; under Arab control from 638 to 1967; Israel now controls site.

Names:

Kotel Hamaʻaravi (preferred,C,V)

Wailing Wall, The (C,O)

Western Wall (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Asia (continent) (P)

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Yisra'el (nation) (P)

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Yerushalayim (national district) (P)

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Yerushalayim (inhabited place) (P)

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Kotel Hamaʻaravi (ruins) (P)

Place Types:

ruins (preferred, C)	............	from 2nd cent. BCE
sacred site (C)

Sources and Contributors:

Kotel Hamaʻaravi..........	[VP Preferred]
.............................	Rand McNally Atlas (1986) I-221

Wailing Wall, The..........	[VP]
................................	Rand McNally Atlas (1986) I-221

Western Wall..........	[VP]
.......................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 605

Subject: .....	[VP]
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 605
..................	Rand McNally Atlas (1986) I-221


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)

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