Referenced In

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

"“Then he got shipwrecked just as he was coming from Jerusalem to take a great chair at Padua.”"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Zaitún commended itself to Arabian ears, being the Arabic for an olive‐tree (whence Jerusalem is called Zaitúniyah)"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"… a monk of the convent of St. Saba, near Jerusalem"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"declared his intention to go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem to adore the Holy Sepulchre..."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Thus in the document containing the autograph of King Hayton, presented at p. 13 of Introductory Essay, the King gives with his daughter, “Damoiselle Femie,” a dowry of 25,000 besans sarrazinas, and in payment 4 of his own bezants staurats (presumably so called from bearing a cross) are to count as one Saracen Bezant. (Cod. Diplomat. del S. Mil. Ord. Gerosolim. I. 134.)"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"M. le Comte Riant’s Itin. à Jérusalem (p. xxix.) is cited in connection with the Polos at Acre."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Jerusalem, 130, i. 19"

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

"‘But isn’t that silly?’ … ‘We could go to Paris and to Rome or to Jerusalem. I would dearly love to see the Colosseum.’"