Link suggestions feature: 1 link added.← Previous revisionRevision as of 02:05, 21 October 2026 Line 29: Line 29: Evidence shows that Crusaders fortified and heightened the 15 foot thick Hasmonean city wall and that Arabs, who [[Siege of Jerusalem (637)|conquered Jerusalem]] in 637, did the same.{{dubious|Terrible mess. 1- If it only concerns the city walls outside the royal palace area, it's irrelevant here. 2- What Arabs? Early Isl. Period (Rashidun, Umayyad etc. through Fatimid) or post-Crusader (Ayyubid, Mamluk)? 900-year span! 3- Why mention 638 AFTER 12th c. Crusaders?|date=February 2016}}{{citation needed|date=February 2016}} Evidence shows that Crusaders fortified and heightened the 15 foot thick Hasmonean city wall and that Arabs, who [[Siege of Jerusalem (637)|conquered Jerusalem]] in 637, did the same.{{dubious|Terrible mess. 1- If it only concerns the city walls outside the royal palace area, it's irrelevant here. 2- What Arabs? Early Isl. Period (Rashidun, Umayyad etc. through Fatimid) or post-Crusader (Ayyubid, Mamluk)? 900-year span! 3- Why mention 638 AFTER 12th c. Crusaders?|date=February 2016}}{{citation needed|date=February 2016}} During the 1160s the kings of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem built in the same general area a royal palace of their own, of which close to nothing remains.{{Cite book |last=Boas |first=Adrian J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0TuCAgAAQBAJ&dq=Jerusalem+%22crusader%22+%22royal+palace%22&pg=PA82 |title=Jerusalem in the Time of the Crusades: Society, Landscape and Art in the Holy City Under Frankish Rule |date=2001-09-06 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-58272-3 |pages=79–82 |language=en |access-date=2024-05-26 |archive-date=2023-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031095444/https://books.google.com/books?id=0TuCAgAAQBAJ&dq=Jerusalem+%22crusader%22+%22royal+palace%22&pg=PA82 |url-status=live }}David Eisenstadt. ''Jerusalem in the Crusader Period.'' Bar-Ilan University, Internet Educational Activities, 1997. "''Adjoining the Citadel to the south was the royal palace of the Crusader kings.''" [http://www.biu.ac.il/js/rennert/history_9.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706075703/https://www.biu.ac.il/js/rennert/history_9.html/|date=2020-07-06}} During the 1160s the kings of the Crusader [[Kingdom of Jerusalem]] built in the same general area a royal palace of their own, of which close to nothing remains.{{Cite book |last=Boas |first=Adrian J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0TuCAgAAQBAJ&dq=Jerusalem+%22crusader%22+%22royal+palace%22&pg=PA82 |title=Jerusalem in the Time of the Crusades: Society, Landscape and Art in the Holy City Under Frankish Rule |date=2001-09-06 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-58272-3 |pages=79–82 |language=en |access-date=2024-05-26 |archive-date=2023-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031095444/https://books.google.com/books?id=0TuCAgAAQBAJ&dq=Jerusalem+%22crusader%22+%22royal+palace%22&pg=PA82 |url-status=live }}David Eisenstadt. ''Jerusalem in the Crusader Period.'' Bar-Ilan University, Internet Educational Activities, 1997. "''Adjoining the Citadel to the south was the royal palace of the Crusader kings.''" [http://www.biu.ac.il/js/rennert/history_9.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706075703/https://www.biu.ac.il/js/rennert/history_9.html/|date=2020-07-06}} A 19th-century Egyptian barracks and later prison—locally known as the ''Kishle''—was built adjacent to the Citadel's southern moat and was used, successively, by [[Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt|Ibrahim Pasha]]'s troops (1834–1840/41), the Turks (1840/41–1917), the British (1917–1948), the Jordanians (1948–1967) and in parts by the Israeli police after 1967. The Tower of David Museum, located at the Citadel, is also administering the Kishle building, thus covering the northernmost part of the palace. A 19th-century Egyptian barracks and later prison—locally known as the ''Kishle''—was built adjacent to the Citadel's southern moat and was used, successively, by [[Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt|Ibrahim Pasha]]'s troops (1834–1840/41), the Turks (1840/41–1917), the British (1917–1948), the Jordanians (1948–1967) and in parts by the Israeli police after 1967. The Tower of David Museum, located at the Citadel, is also administering the Kishle building, thus covering the northernmost part of the palace.