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Amman

(Encyclopedia)Amman ämän´ [key], city (1997 est. pop. 1,415,000), capital of Jordan, N central Jordan, on the Jabbok (Wadi Zerka) River. Jordan's largest city and industrial and commercial heart, it is also a tr...

Rabbah

(Encyclopedia)Rabbah or Rabbath: see Amman, Jordan.

Jogbehah

(Encyclopedia)Jogbehah jg´bhä [key], in the Bible, town, E of the Jordan River, NW of Amman (Jordan).

Zarqa

(Encyclopedia)Zarqa or Zerkaboth: zär´kä [key], in the Bible, river, 80 mi (129 km) long, rising in the hills W of Amman, N Jordan, and flowing generally north, then west, to the Jordan River; it is the ancient ...

Philadelphia

(Encyclopedia)Philadelphia, name of several ancient cities. One was in Lydia, W Asia Minor (now W Turkey). At the foot of Mt. Tmolus and near the location of modern Alaehir, it was founded in the 2d cent. BC by A...

Ammon

(Encyclopedia)Ammon m´n [key], in the Bible, people living E of the Dead Sea. Their capital was Rabbath-Ammon, the present-day Amman (Jordan). Their god was Milcom, to whom Solomon built an altar. A Semitic pe...

Abdullah II

(Encyclopedia)Abdullah IIäbdool´lä, 1962–, king of Jordan (1999–), b. Amman, educated at Sandhurst and Oxford in England and Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C. He joined (1984) the Jordanian military, rose...

Falluja, Al

(Encyclopedia)Falluja, Al äl fäloo´j [key], town (2004 est. pop 300,000), Anbar prov., central Iraq, on the Euphrates. A strategic city 35 mi (56 km) W of Baghdad, Falluja is sited where a highway linking Ba...

Gerasa

(Encyclopedia)Gerasa jr´s [key], Gerash, or Jerashboth: j´räsh, jräsh´ [key], ancient city of the Decapolis, 22 mi (35 km) N of Amman, in present-day Jordan. According to Josephus it was captured (83...

Husayn ibn Ali

(Encyclopedia)Husayn ibn Ali ´bn ä´l [key], 1856–1931, Arab political and religious leader. In 1908 he succeeded as grand sherif of Mecca and thus became ruler of the Hejaz under the Ottoman Empire. In W...

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