Jerusalem

===Jebus, Zion, City of David===
An ancient settlement of Jerusalem, founded as early as the Bronze Age on the hill above the [[Gihon Spring]], was, according to the Bible, named [[Jebusite|Jebus]].<ref>{{bibleverse|Judges|19:10}}: יְב֔וּס הִ֖יא יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם: "Jebus, it [is] Jerusalem"</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=1012257 |title=Bible, King James Version |work=umich.edu |access-date=12 February 2016 |archive-date=11 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211102731/http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=1012257 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Gagrinp113>{{Google books |id=lNV6-HsUppsC |page=113 |title=The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome, Volume 1}}, p. 113</ref> Called the "Fortress of Zion" (''metsudat Zion''), it was renamed as the "City of David",<ref>{{bibleverse|2 Samuel 5:7,9|multi=yes}}. Cited in {{cite book |author1=[[Israel Finkelstein|Finkelstein, Israel]] |author2=[[Amihai Mazar|Mazar, Amihai]] |editor=Brian B. Schmidt |title=The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel |page=127 |date=2007 |publisher=Society of Biblical Literature |isbn=978-1-58983-277-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jpbngoKHg8gC&pg=PA177 |access-date=9 January 2022 |archive-date=6 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706081119/https://books.google.com/books?id=jpbngoKHg8gC&pg=PA177 |url-status=live}}</ref> and was known by this name in antiquity.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bar-Kochva |first=Bezalel |year=2002 |title=Judas Maccabeus: The Jewish Struggle Against the Seleucids |page=447 |url={{Google books |id=SIKuW_bl6LAC |page=447 |plainurl=yes}} |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-01683-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Mazar |first=Eilat |title=The Complete Guide to the Temple Mount Excavations |year=2002 |publisher=Shoham Academic Research and Publication |location=Jerusalem |isbn=978-965-90299-1-4 |page=1}}</ref> Another name, "[[Zion]]", initially referred to a distinct part of the city, but later came to signify the city as a whole, and afterwards to represent the whole biblical [[Land of Israel]].