Cities & places
Every major city’s names across Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Arabic, who founded it, and who lives there now.
- What was Jerusalem called before al-Quds?
- Is Hebron a Jewish city or a Palestinian city?
- What was Nablus called before it was Nablus?
- How old is Jaffa, and whose city is it?
- What was Acre called through history?
- Why does Tiberias matter to Jewish history?
- What is Safed known for?
- What is Bethlehem’s history, before and after Christianity?
- Was Gaza ever a Jewish city?
- What was Lod before it was Lydda?
- How old is Beersheba?
- Is Nazareth an Arab city or a Jewish one?
- Which city did Arabs actually found?
- When was Tel Aviv founded?
Every page in this section
Section titled “Every page in this section”- Why do embassies avoid Jerusalem? Jerusalem has been Israel’s seat of government since 1949. For seven decades almost every country put its embassy in Tel Aviv anyway, a treatment applied to no other capital on earth, and the 2018 American move broke it.