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Siege of Jerusalem

Siege of Jerusalem was a siege conducted in 37 BC at Jerusalem, in what is now Israel.

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Capture of Jerusalem by Herod the Great in 36 BC. B.C. Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, illumination by Jean Fouquet, around 1470-1475. Paris, BnF, Manuscripts Department, NAF 21013, fol. 1v. (Bo
Capture of Jerusalem by Herod the Great in 36 BC. B.C. Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, illumination by Jean Fouquet, around 1470-1475. Paris, BnF, Manuscripts Department, NAF 21013, fol. 1v. (Bo. Jean Fouquet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Date37 BC (year precision)
PlaceJerusalem, Israel
31.783N, 35.217E
KindSiege, ancient
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Siege of Jerusalem is one of 106 engagements of the 1st century BC in the atlas and one of 106 in present-day Israel.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q11160826, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Herod's siege of Jerusalem, revision 1381067958, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.