ABSTRACT
At the end of the eleventh century, after a hiatus of just over four and a half centuries, Jerusalem came once again under Christian rule. On 15 July 1099, at the conclusion of a six-week siege, the armies of the First Crusade broke into the city, massacred many of the local inhabitants, expelled those non-Christians who survived and appointed Godfrey of Bouillon as ruler of the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem. One of the most urgent issues that faced the leadership following the conquest was the need to repopulate Jerusalem. In the Crusader period, the principal quarters were the Armenian quarter in the southwest, the Patriarch’s quarter in the northwest and the Syrian quarter–known also as Juverie although it no longer had a Jewish community–in the northeast. In the Crusader period, the Armenian community was located within the city walls in the southwest of the city.
