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ID: 7002392
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002392

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of ʻAmmān (inhabited place)  ʻAmmān (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 31 57 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 31.9500  decimal degrees
Long: 035 56 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 35.9333  decimal degrees

Note: Chief city of Ammonites; captured by Joab and David; improved by Ptolemy II Philadelphus; most southerly of the ten cities of the Decapolis; prospered under Eastern Roman Empire; taken by Arabs 635; settled by Ottomans 1878; has modern urban infrastructure.

Names:
ʻAmmān (preferred,C,V)
Amman (C,V)
Philadelphia (H,O)  ............ ancient, after Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 285-246 BCE
Rabbath Ammon (H,O)
Rabbah Ammon (H,O)  ............ Biblical
Rabbah (H,O)
Rabbat Bene ʻAmmon (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Jordan (nation)  ........  Jordan (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Al ‘Āṣimah (governorate)  ............  Al ‘Āṣimah (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of ʻAmmān (inhabited place)  ................  ʻAmmān (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in Chalcolithic period, 4000-3000 BCE
town (C)
national capital (C)  ............  since 1921
regional capital (C)
administrative center (C)
commercial center (C)
trade center (C)
financial center (C)
transportation center (C)
educational center (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Jordan .......... (nation)
..................  (World, Asia) [1000121]

Sources and Contributors:
ʻAmmān..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Amman..........  [BHA, GRLPSC]
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Philadelphia..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.......................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8682
.......................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Rabbah..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) I, 344
Rabbah Ammon..........  [VP]
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 45
Rabbat Bene ʻAmmon..........  [VP]
...................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) I, 344
Rabbath Ammon..........  [VP]
..........................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 353
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) I, 344
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8682
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 353
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 45
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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