What is Old City (Jerusalem)?
{{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site |WHS = The Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls<ref>{{cite web |url=http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/148 |title=Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls |work=[[UNESCO]] |accessdate=13 January 2014}}</ref> |Image = Old City (Jerusalem).jpg |Criteria = Cultural: ii, iii, vi |ID = 148 |Year = 1981 |Danger = 1982–''present'' }} {{Jerusalem sidebar}} {{History of Palestine}} The '''Old City''' ({{lang-ar|البلدة القديمة}}, ''al-Balda al-Qadimah'', {{lang-hy|Հին Քաղաք}}, ''Hin K'aghak'', {{lang-he|העיר העתיקה}}, ''Ha'Ir Ha'Atiqah'') of [[Jerusalem]] is the oldest part of the city located in Palestine (a country that can be dated back to as far as 12th BCE). It is an {{convert|0.9|km2|adj=on}} area that is surrounded by walls.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kollek |first=Teddy |authorlink=Teddy Kollek |chapter=Afterword |editor=John Phillips |title=A Will to Survive - Israel: the Faces of the Terror 1948-the Faces of Hope Today|publisher=Dial Press/James Wade|year=1977|quote=about 225 acres}}</ref> It contains some of the most [[Sacred site|important places]] for three major [[religion]]s. These include the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for [[Christian]]s, the [[Temple Mount]] for [[Jew]]s, and the [[Dome of the Rock]] and [[al-Aqsa Mosque]] for [[Muslim]]s. The Old City formed the whole city of Jerusalem until 1860, when a Jewish neighborhood was built outside the Western Wall. The Old City is historically divided into four [[quarter]]s, although the current quarters were introduced only in the 19th century.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ben-Arieh |first=Yehoshua |pages=[https://archive.org/details/jerusalemin19thc00bena/page/14 14] |editor=|title=Jerusalem in the 19th Century, The Old City|url=https://archive.org/details/jerusalemin19thc00bena |publisher=Yad Izhak Ben Zvi & St. Martin's Press|year=1984 | isbn = 0-312-44187-8}}</ref> Today, the Old City is divided into the Muslim Quarter, the Christian Quarter, the Jewish Quarter and the [[Armenian Quarter]]. After the