infrastruktura: Old City of Jerusalem

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The Old City of Jerusalem (Arabic: المدينة القديمة, romanized: al-Madīna al-Qadīma; Hebrew: הָעִיר הָעַתִּיקָה, romanized: Ha'ír Ha'atiká) is a 0.9-square-kilometre (0.35 sq mi) walled area in East Jerusalem. In a tradition that may have begun with an 1840s British map of the city, the Old City is divided into four uneven quarters: the Muslim Quarter, the Christian Quarter, the Armenian Quarter, and the Jewish Quarter. A fifth area is the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound or Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa (Temple Mount hill) and home to the monumental Dome of the Rock, the Qibli (Al-Aqsa) Mosque, and was once the site of the Jewish Temple. The Old City's modern walls and city gates were built by the Ottoman Empir…

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Evidence: 40 • authority: 72

Evidence: 40 • authority: 72

Evidence: 40 • authority: 72

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Suleiman I (6 November 1494 – 6 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent, was the Ottoman sultan from 1520 to 1566. The longest reign among the Ottoman sultans, his rule brought about a notable peak in the Ottoman Empire's economic, military and political power, and raised the number of the empire's subjects to at least 25 million people. After succeeding his father Selim I on 30 September 1520, Suleiman began his reign by launching military campaigns against the Christian powers of Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean; Belgrade fell to him in 1521 and Rhodes in 1522, and at Mohács in 1526, Suleiman broke the strength of the Kingdom of Hungary. Hungary was sub…