Articles in Jordan ( 170 )

170 Articles of interest in Jordan

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  • Abronah

    According to the Book of Numbers, Abronah (Hebrew: עַבְרֹנָה‎), sometimes "Ebronah", is one of the places the Israelites stopped at during the Exodus from Egypt, before Ezion-Geber. Its name means passage, and it is the passage from the mountains do…

  • Rujm Al-Malfouf

    Rujm Al-Malfouf is one of a series of watchtowers from the Ammonite kingdom in modern day Amman, Jordan. Built in the first half of the first millennium BCE, the watchtower is located on Jabal Amman.

  • Jotbathah

    Jotbathah (Hebrew: יָטְבָתָה, Yatvatah) or "Jotbath" is one of the stops of the Israelites on the Exodus journey.

  • Huwwarah

    Huwwarah (Arabic: حوّاره‎), also spelled Huwwara and Huwarrah, is a village in northern Jordan. It is situated in the Governorate of Irbid, and is one of many agricultural villages in the fertile mud plains of Hauran. The mud plains of Hauran bridge…

  • Habaka

    Habaka (Arabic: حبكا‎) is a small hill town in northern Jordan, located 75 km north of the capital Amman (in Arabic عمان), and about 5 km south of Irbid (Arabic: إربد). The region has a very fertile soil along with suitable climate allows the growin…

  • Al-Hassan Stadium

    Al-Hasan Stadium (Arabic: ستاد مدينة الحسن‎) is a multi-purpose stadium in Irbid, Jordan. It is currently used mostly for football matches.

  • Al Hashimiyya

    Al Hashimiyya (/ˌælhæʃˈmə/; Arabic: الهاشميةal-Hāshimīyah) is a village in the Ajloun Governorate of north-western Jordan. The village is located 7 km northwest of Ajloun, 22 km south of Irbid and 108 km north of Amman. It is near Ajloun Castle …

  • Ain Janna

    Ain Janna (Arabic: عين جنّا) is a village is located in the Ajloun Governorate in the north-western part of Jordan. The name is Arabic for Spring of Paradise: Ain is a spring (of water), and Janna is Paradise. The name was being his own given to the…

  • Abdoun Circle

    Abdoun Circle (Arabic: دوار عبدون) is a traffic circle in the Abdoun neighborhood of Amman, Jordan. The circle is across Wadi Abdoun from the 4th Circle, which it is linked to by the Abdoun Bridge. A tunnel under the roundabout was created with the …

  • Tulul adh-Dhahab

    The Tulul adh-Dhahab (also: Tall / Telul edh Dhehab, Arabic: تلول الذهب), Jordan, are two adjacent tells in the Zarqa River valley, a sidevalley of the Jordan Valley about an hour's drive northwest of Amman in Jordan. The western of the twin hills w…

  • Kufr Khall

    Kufr Khall, (also written Kufur Khall, Kufr Khal) (Arabic: كفرخل ), is a town in the north of Jordan, in the Jerash Governorate. The origin of its name, is from Syriac kafr meaning the village or the country and from Arabic khall that means vinegar,…

  • Halawah

    Halawah (حلاوة) is a village in the in Ajloun Governorate, Jordan. Along with Al Hashimiyya and Al Wahadinah, it makes up the Ash Shefa Municipality.

  • Gesher (archaeological site)

    Gesher is an archaeological site located on the southern bank of Nahal Tavor, near kibbutz Gesher in the central Jordan Valley of Israel. It bears signs of occupation from two periods, the very early Neolithic and the Middle Bronze Age. The site was…

  • Safina, Jordan

    As-Safena (Arabic: السفينة‎) (al-Sāfinah) is a small village of approximately 1,500 people in the western Ajloun region of north Jordan. It is located in a remote, mountainous area about 10 km from the city of Ajloun. Safena comes from the Arabic wo…

  • Romtha

    Romtha, Ramtha, Ramoth, Ar Ramtha, Al Romtha, Ermeith, Ramath, Ramtha'a are all names for the same region, a flat location 30 km north-east of Jordan River.

  • Abila (Decapolis)

    Abila (Ancient Greek: Ἄβιλα), Abila in the Decapolis (Abila Dekapoleos), and for a time, Seleucia (Ancient Greek: Σελεύκεια; also transliterated as Seleuceia, Seleukeia), was an ancient city in the Decapolis; the site, now referred to as Quwaylibah