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The failure of the BAR KOCHBA revolt the Jews were banished from Jerusalem.
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Muslim toleration of both Jews and Christians gave way to persecution under the FATMID caliph al-Hakim and under the SELJUKS.
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the Seljuks seized Jerusalem in 1071.
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The Crusades were a reponse to the Seljuks and conquered Jerusalem in 1099
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Saladin recaptured the city for the Muslims in 1187 and the Ayyubid and Mameluke dynasies ruled until1517 when the Empire took control.
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The British occupied Jerusalem, and it became the capital of mandated Palestine from 1923 until 1948.
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The United Nations partition plan for Palestine called for internationalization of the city. The Arabs rejected this resolution, and, from1949, Jerusalem was divided into an Israeli and Jordanian sector.
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The Church of the Holy Sepulcher and other Christian shrines were also erected. Except for a brief period of Persian rule from (614-628).
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Jerusalem had stayed Roman until the Muslim Arabs took Jerusalem.
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The Arabs built the Dome of the Rock mosque on the site of the temple.
