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2 days ago · The capital and largest city in the country is Amman.
Sep 5, 2021 · After the Ptolemaic Greeks took control of Amman, in 285 BC, Ptolemy II changed its name from Robbat Ammon to "Philadelphia". Philadelphia means the city of brotherly love. He named it after the leader "Philadelphia." This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service.
Amman Arabic عمان ʿAmmān ), is the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the capital of the Amman Governorate. It is the largest city in the Kingdom and one of the largest Arab cities in terms of population, with a population in 2014 of about 4 million, which also makes it one of the fastest growing cities in the world.
- 7250 BC
- Jordan
- 1909
- Amman Governorate
This area is the modern day country of Jordan. The Ammonites flourished in this land until the invasion of the Arabs. Its ancient capital city was Rabbah or Rabbath-Ammon which is now the capital of Jordan, the city of Amman. And just like Moab, its location greatly benefited being along the King’s Highway.
Amman Tours. Few places show the evolution of Jordan’s story as clearly as Amman, for here we can still see, layer upon layer, many stages in the city’s metamorphosis.. Once capital of the Iron Age kingdom of Ammon, it became in turn a Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine city, then heart of the Umayyad province of Al-Balqa’, an abandoned field of ruins and a late-19th century Ottoman villa