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ID: 7002403
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002403
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Irbid (inhabited place)  Irbid (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 32 33 18 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 32.5556  decimal degrees
Long: 035 51 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 35.8500  decimal degrees

Elevation:
2034.120  feet    620.0000  meters

Note: City built on Bronze Age settlements, pottery and wall stones date to 3200 BCE; ancient name was Arabella; it may be Biblical Beth Arbel & Arbila of Decapolis. Today is one of country's fastest growing industrial areas; located within Jordan's most fertile region; has many springs; has Yarmūk University.

Names:
Irbid (preferred,C,V)
إربد‎ (C,V,Arabic,U)
Arabella (C,V,S)  ............ ancient name
Arbēla (C,V)
Arbela (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Jordan (nation)  ........  Jordan (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Irbid (governorate)  ............  Irbid (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Irbid (inhabited place)  ................  Irbid (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in Bronze Age
town (C)
regional capital (C)
industrial center (C)
agricultural center (C)
educational center (C)
Bronze Age (H)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Irbid .......... (governorate)
..................  (World, Asia, Jordan) [1002085]
located on ....  Persian Royal Road .......... (road)
..................  (World, Asia) [8711714]

Sources and Contributors:
إربد‎..........  [VP]
..............  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Arabella..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Arbela..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Arbēla..........  [VP]
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
Irbid..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VI, 378
..............  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) 36SYB6760905601
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 94
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VI, 378
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 94
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)

 

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