To the East.
Kingdom of Jerusalem was created in 1099.
The flight distance from Bristol, United Kingdom to Jerusalem, Israel is: 2,343 miles / 3,770 km
Yes. Samaria was the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel. (Gibeah, Hebron, and Jerusalem were the capitals of the United Kingdom of Israel.)
The south.
Yes, they share a head of state (Queen Elizabeth II).
The United Kingdom is in Europe.
United Kingdom
The capital of the northern kingdom was Samaria, while the capital of the southern kingdom was Jerusalem.
No. Judaism has a number of places where people believed that it began (Ur in the time of Abraham, Sinai in the time of Moses), but none of them propose Jerusalem. Jerusalem was the capital of the United Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judah. During the period of the Jewish Exile, Jerusalem became a metaphor for the Divine Presence it was believed to have had.Answer:Jerusalem is not where Judaism began, but it was a holy site for the Forefathers of Judaism. According to tradition, the Akeidah (Binding of Isaac, Genesis ch.22) took place in Jerusalem (Maimonides, Hilchot Beit Habechirah).
Jerusalem
I believe it is Jerusalem.