Aelia_Capitolina Aelia Capitolina (Latin in fullColonia Aelia Capitolina) was a city built by the emperor Hadrian, and occupied by a Roman colony, on the site of Jerusalem, which was still in ruins from the Great Jewish Revolt in 70 A.D. Josephus, a contemporary, reports thatWhen Emperor Hadrian vowed to rebuild Jerusalem from the wreckage in 130 A.D.,