Damascus Gate
The Damascus Gate (, , "Sha'ar Sh'khem") is one of the main Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. It is located in the wall on the city's northwest side and connects to a highway leading out to Nablus, which in the Hebrew Bible was called Shechem or Sichem, and from there, in times past, to the capital of Syria, Damascus; as such, its modern English name is the Damascus Gate, and its modern Hebrew name, "Sha'ar Shkhem" (), meaning Shechem Gate, or Nablus Gate. Of its historic Arabic names, "Bab al-Nasr" () means "gate of victory," and Bab al-Amud () means "gate of the column." The latter name, in use continuously since at least as early as the 10th century, preserves the memory of a Roman column towering over the square behind the gate and dating to the 2nd century AD.