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The Hebrew University complex and tower on Mount Scopus from the south. The new tunnel through the mountain to Maale Adummim is visible.
Mount Scopus (Hebrew הַר הַצּוֹפִים, Standard Hebrew Har haẒofim, Tiberian Hebrew Har haṣṢôp̄îm; Arabic جبل المشارف Ǧabal al-Mašārif, جبل المشهد Ǧabal al-Mašhad, جبل الصوانة Ǧabal aṣ-Ṣawānah) is a mountain, located in northeast Jerusalem. Neighborhoods near Mount Scopus include the French Hill to the north, and Sheik Al Jarra to the Southwest.

Unlike East Jerusalem, Mount Scopus was held by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and existed as an exclave of Israel inside Jordanian territory during Jordan's occupation of Judea and the Shomron from 1948 till 1967. Israeli sovereignty over Mt. Scopus is internationally recognized. Today, Mount Scopus lies inside Israel's official borders of the City of Jerusalem.

Fabled for its views of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus is a vantage point that in the past has had strategic significance — hence its name (Latin scopus as in "scope"). It was from Mount Scopus that the Romans planned and launched their assault that destroyed the city in 70 A.D. The Crusaders also chose this location for their camp before the Siege of Jerusalem in 1099 A.D.

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The Old City of Jerusalem from Mount Scopus
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Neighborhoods of Jerusalem
Hebrew}}} 
Writing system: Alefbet Ivri abjad 
Official status
Official language of:  Israel
Regulated by: Academy of the Hebrew Language

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Hebrew}}} 
Writing system: Alefbet Ivri abjad 
Official status
Official language of:  Israel
Regulated by: Academy of the Hebrew Language

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Tiberian Hebrew is an extinct oral tradition of pronunciation for ancient Hebrew, especially the Hebrew of the Tanakh, that was given written form by masoretic scholars in the Jewish community at Tiberias in the early Middle Ages, beginning in the 8th century.
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al-‘Arabiyyah in written Arabic (Kufic script):  
Pronunciation: /alˌʕa.raˈbij.ja/
Spoken in: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman,
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Jerusalem (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם   (help info ) , Yerushaláyim; Arabic:
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French Hill (Hebrew: הגבעה הצרפתית) is a neighborhood in north-central Jerusalem. It is located in territory captured by Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967.
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East Jerusalem refers to the part of Jerusalem captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and subsequently by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. It includes Jerusalem's Old City and some of the holiest sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, such as the Temple Mount, Western
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Hatikvah
The Hope


Capital
(and largest city) Jerusalem

Official languages Hebrew, Arabic
Demonym Israeli
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1948 Arab-Israeli War, also known as the Israeli War of Independence, was the first in a series of wars fought between the State of Israel and its Arab neighbors in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict.
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enclave is a country or part of a country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country or wholly lying within the boundaries of another country,[1] and an exclave is one which is geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory.
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Anthem
عاش المليك
The Royal Anthem of Jordan
   ("As-salam al-malaki al-urdoni") 1
Long live the King
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Anthem
Hatikvah
The Hope


Capital
(and largest city) Jerusalem

Official languages Hebrew, Arabic
Demonym Israeli
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Jerusalem (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם   (help info ) , Yerushaláyim; Arabic:
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Official status
Official language of: Vatican City
Used for official purposes, but not spoken in everyday speech
Regulated by: Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Roman Catholic Church
Language codes
ISO 639-1: la
ISO 639-2: lat
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Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea.
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Crusades were a series of military conflicts of a religious character waged by much of Christian Europe during 1095–1291, most of which were sanctioned by the Pope in the name
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Siege of Jerusalem took place from June 7 to July 15, 1099 during the First Crusade.

Background

After the successful siege of Antioch in June of 1098, the crusaders remained in the area for the rest of the year.
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Hebrew: האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים
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Place Jerusalem  (Israel)
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Hospital Type Teaching

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The Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center for Near-Eastern Studies is a study center for Brigham Young University situated on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, Israel. The center teaches curriculum concerning Near Eastern history, Hebrew and Arabic language, and the Gospels in the New
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Augusta Victoria was built in 1906 as a center for the German Protestant community in Palestine. The complex consisted of a church with a 65-meter belltower and a hospice for Christian pilgrims.
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Mount Scopus Memorial College is a private school located in Melbourne, Victoria.

History

Mount Scopus Memorial College was opened on St Kilda Road in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia for its first school year in 1949, taking its name from Mount Scopus in Jerusalem,
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Coeducation is the integrated education of males and females at the same school facilities. The opposite situation is described as single-sex education. Most older institutions of higher education restricted their enrollment to a single sex at some point in their history, and since
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Advance Australia Fair [1]


Capital Canberra

Largest city Sydney
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geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth.
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Jerusalem (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם   (help info ) , Yerushaláyim; Arabic:
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The American Colony was a Christian utopian society that formed in Jerusalem in 1881, as well as the eponymous modern neighbourhood where they lived.

Overview

Moved by a series of tragic losses, Chicago natives Anna and Horatio Spafford led a small American contingent in
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The Armenian Quarter is one of the four quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem. Although the Armenian people are Christians, the Armenian Quarter is distinct from the Christian Quarter.
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at-Tur (Arabic: الطور, meaning "The Mount" in Arabic) is an Israeli Arab village situated on the historic Mount of Olives approximately 1 km east of the Old City of Jerusalem.
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Atarot, as mentioned in the Moabite Stone (Mesha Stele) is likely a reference to the Biblical town of Ataroth as mentioned in Numbers 32:3, 34. Its connection in both the Stele and the Biblical record to the Tribe of Gad, makes this probable.
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