Jerusalem´s Old City Walls encompass an area of barely 1 km².
They were built in the 16th century (1535-1538) by the Sultan
Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Turks after they had
been razed in 1219 by al-Mu´azzim. Those are the walls mentioned
when talking about Jerusalem´s walls, but there have been many
different sets of walls surrounding Jerusalem. Before King
David´s conquest of Jerusalem in the 10th century BC the city
was known as Jebus and the home of the Jebusites. The Bible
describes the city as heavily fortified with a strong city wall
but not much is known about it. King Solomon extended the city
walls. In about 440 BC, under the Persian period, Nehemiah
arrived from Babylon and rebuilt them. In AD 41-44 Agrippa, king
of Judea, built a new city wall known as the "Third Wall". In
135, after Emperor Hadrian´s total destruction of Jerusalem and
renaming it to Aelia Capitolina he rebuilt the walls. The
current walls of the Old City do not include the original area
conquered by King David. This ar