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During its history, Jordan has seen numerous civilizations, including such ancient near eastern ones as the Canaanite and later other Semitic peoples such as the Edomites, and the Moabites. Other civilizations possessing political sovereignty and influence in Jordan were: Akkadian, Assyrian, Israelite/Judean, Babylonian, and Persian empires.

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AL KARAK Karak (also Kerak) is a city in Jordan that is known for the famous crusader castle Kerak. Karak, once a part of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, lies 140 km to the south of Amman on the King's Highway. An ancient Crusader stronghold, it is situated on a hilltop about 1000 meters above sea level and is surrounded on three sides by a valley ...

AMMAN Amman is the capital and largest city of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. A city of about 2 million inhabitants, it is the country's political, cultural and commercial centre and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Amman has been inhabited by several civilizations. The first civilization on record is during the Neolithic period, around 8500 BC ...

AQABA Aqaba has been an inhabited settlement since 4000 BC profiting from its strategic location at the junction of trading routes between Asia, Africa, and Europe. The early settlement was presumably Edomite in ancient times. It was a center of the Edomites, and then of the Arab Nabataeans, during the first century B.C. who populated the region extensively ...

THE DEAD SEA The Dead Sea, also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east, and Israel to the west. Its surface and shores are 422 metres below sea level, the lowest elevation on the Earth's surface on dry land. The Dead Sea is 378 m deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. It is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water ...

FUHEIS Fuheis is a town in the Jordanian governorate of Balqa, just 20 kilometers northwest of Amman. A town of 20,000 residents, Fuheis is the only overtly Christian dominated settlement in Jordan. It is located in an intermediate vicinity to the cities of Salt and Amman ...

JERASH Jerash, the Gerasa of Antiquity, is situated in the north of Jordan, 48 kilometres north of the capital Amman towards Syria. Jerash is known for the ruins of the Greco-Roman city of Gerasa, also referred to as Antioch on the Golden River. It is sometimes referred to as the Pompeii of the Middle East, referring to its size, extent of excavation and level of preservation ...

MAHIS Mahis is believed to emerged during the Roman period, when it bordered Jewish Perea and the territory of Philadelphia - Amman of the Decapolis, and in the Byzantine period between the territory of the diocesis of Gadara - es-Salt and Philadelphia. The name comes from the Arabic word meaning to check out and examine due to its status as a border check point ...

MOUNT NEBO Mount Nebo is an elevated ridge that is approximately 817 meters (2680 feet) above sea level, in what is now western Jordan. The view from the summit provides a panorama of the Holy Land and, to the north, a more limited one of the valley of the River Jordan. The West Bank city of Jericho is usually visible from the summit, as is Jerusalem on a very clear day ...

PETRA Petra, meaning rock, is a historic and archaeological city in the Jordanian governorate of Ma'an that has rock cut architecture and a water conduits system. Established sometime around the 6th century BC as the capital city of the Nabataeans, it is a symbol of Jordan as well as its most visited tourism attraction. It lies on the slope of Mount Hor ...

QUEEN RANIA As a global figure, and considered by some to be one of the world's most powerful women, Queen Rania has focused her energy, at home and abroad, on a variety of causes, notably education. In Jordan, her work focuses on the calibre and quality of education for Jordanian children, while abroad she advocates for global education ...

UMM QAIS Umm Qais is a town in Jordan located on the site of the ruined Hellenistic-Roman city of Gadara. The town was also called Antiochia or Antiochia Semiramis and Seleucia. Gadara was a semi-autonomous city of the Roman Decapolis. After Herod's death it was joined to the province of Syria (4 BC) ...

WADI RUM Wadi Rum also known as The Valley of the Moon is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in south Jordan at 60 km to the east of Aqaba. It is the largest wadi in Jordan. The name Rum most likely comes from an Aramaic root meaning 'high' or 'elevated'. To reflect its proper Arabic pronunciation, archaeologists transcribe it as Wadi Ramm ...

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