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40: 137: 250:(Salah ad-Din Street), az-Zahra Street and surrounding streets are major commercial centers. Branches of the main banks and restaurants have offices there. The commercial area continues uninterrupted through Damascus Gate with the open market in the 258:, which was opened in 1937. Also on Saladin Street are the district court, the judiciary office, and the legal counsel for the government. Another famous building in this neighborhood is the 339: 307: 247: 1351: 332: 1307: 231: 1346: 104: 325: 76: 123: 83: 282: 255: 200:
At the end of the Roman Period, the building of the so-called Third Wall of Jerusalem, started under the reign of
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after the partition of Jerusalem in 1948, the neighborhood became a commercial center of East Jerusalem.
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in 70 CE, meant that the area was included for a short while behind the protective walls of the city.
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The modern neighborhood was founded at the end of the 19th century along the road to
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of the Old City. In the eastern part of the neighborhood resides the
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East Jerusalem
Old City
American Colony
Wadi al-Joz
Herod's Gate
Damascus Gate
Mea Shearim
Herod Agrippa I
First Jewish–Roman War
Nablus
Garden Tomb
Old City walls
British Mandate in Palestine
Jordanian rule
Nablus Road

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