note Which is basically like a second Christian quarter, but with Armenians. As a result the old city is divided into quarters to help keep everyone from doing so Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Armenian. Everyone wants to own it, and a fair number of those who don't own it have shown themselves willing to blow bits up to acquire it. Known for its wide variety of religious figures, ranging from too many kinds of ultra-Orthodox Jews to describe here to Franciscan monks to robed-and-veiled Sunni Muslim Arabs. Everything is built of a very pretty limestone known as Jerusalem Stone so that the New City in Western Jerusalem can match the appearance of the comparatively small Old City. Religious and political capital of the State of Israel as well as its largest city, Jerusalem is home to about 800,000 people depending on where your favorite fringe political faction draws the city limits. Since the Bible Times, more prophecies and/or religious pronouncements have directly concerned it than any other location on the planet.
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