Sixteenth Century Jerusalem: A Model of Coexistence?
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The city of Jerusalem has been a favourite topic of historians over the centuries.
Surrounded by its magnificent stone wall, the Old City appears to admirers as a vast, open museum that boasts among its exhibits
narrow alleys and vaulted markets, ancient remains and holy shrines and a unique mixture of inhabitants. Under the Muslim Ottoman empire, Arab, Jewish, Christian, Armenian and Greek communities, to cite just a few, lived one next to the other.