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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8198941, member: 128351&quot;]The Christians already called Jerusalem in Greek &quot;Η ΑΓΙΑ ΠΟΛΙC ΙЄΡΟΥCΑ[ΛEM]&quot; (the Holy City Jerusalem) in the 6th c, as you can see on this schematic city-plan from a 6th c. mosaic in Madaba (Jordan). </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1436447[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If the Christians said &quot;Holy city&quot; in Greek, it is very likely that there was an equivalent in Aramaic, the everyday language people spoke in the street. The Muslim conquerors first did not use the Christian name, but later adopted it in Arabic. This must be linked with the building of the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan in 692.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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