Abstract is: Jerash (Arabic: جرش Ǧaraš; Ancient Greek: Γέρασα Gérasa) is a city in northern Jordan. The city is the administrative center of the Jerash Governorate, and has a population of 50,745 as of 2015. It is located 48 kilometres (30 mi) north of the capital city Amman. The earliest evidence of settlement in Jerash is in a Neolithic site known as Tal Abu Sowan, where rare human remains dating to around 7500 BC were uncovered. Jerash flourished during the Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods until the mid-eighth century CE, when the 749 Galilee earthquake destroyed large parts of it, while subsequent earthquakes contributed to additional destruction. However, in the year 1120, Zahir ad-Din Toghtekin, atabeg of Damascus ordered a garrison of forty men to build up a fort in an unknown site of the ruins of the ancient city, likely the highest spot of the city walls in the north-eastern hills. It was captured in 1121 by Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, and utterly destroyed. Then, the Crusaders immediately abandoned Jerash and withdrew to Sakib (Seecip); the eastern border of the settlement. Jerash was then deserted until it reappeared in the historical record at the beginning of Ottoman rule in the area during the early 16th century. In the census of 1596, it had a population of 12 Muslim households. However, archaeologists found a small Mamluk hamlet in the Northwest Quarter which indicates that Jerash was resettled before the Ottoman era. The excavations conducted since 2011 have shed light on the Middle Islamic period as recent discoveries have uncovered a large concentration of Middle Islamic/Mamluk structures and pottery. The ancient city has been gradually revealed through a series of excavations which commenced in 1925, and continue to this day. Jerash today is home to one of the best preserved Greco-Roman cities, which earned it the nickname of "Pompeii of the Middle East". Approximately 330,000 visitors arrived in Jerash in 2018, making it one of the most visited sites in Jordan. The city hosts the Jerash Festival, one of the leading cultural events in the Middle East that attracts tens of thousands of visitors every year.
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P3241 | Catholic Encyclopedia ID | 06469a |
P6706 | De Agostini ID | Jarash |
P1417 | Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID | place/Jarash |
P8168 | FactGrid item ID | Q85269 |
P646 | Freebase ID | /m/01959d |
P1566 | GeoNames ID | 248875 |
P227 | GND ID | 4071743-4 |
P2326 | GNS Unique Feature ID | -971956 |
P2924 | Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (old version) | 1951555 |
P269 | IdRef ID | 029927226 |
P244 | Library of Congress authority ID | nr90008718 |
P9957 | museum-digital place ID | 35560 |
P8189 | National Library of Israel J9U ID | 987007538005205171 |
P856 | official website | http://www.jerash.gov.jo |
P7305 | Online PWN Encyclopedia ID | 3896153 |
P402 | OpenStreetMap relation ID | 8475054 |
P3417 | Quora topic ID | Jerash |
P12749 | SNARC ID | Q2395 |
P4342 | Store norske leksikon ID | Jerash |
P1937 | UN/LOCODE | JOJAR |
P214 | VIAF ID | 139983465 |
P1481 | vici.org ID | 7862 |
P6766 | Who's on First ID | 421199677 |
P4171 | World Heritage Tentative List ID | 1856 |
P9000 | World History Encyclopedia ID | Jerash |
P2046 | area | 410 | |
P1376 | capital of | Jerash Governorate | Q750270 |
P1464 | category for people born here | ??? | Q44618873 |
P8989 | category for the view of the item | Category:Views of Jerash | Q104598217 |
P1792 | category of associated people | Category:People from Jerash | Q8737698 |
P17 | country | Jordan | Q810 |
P1343 | described by source | Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition | Q867541 |
Meyer’s Universum, Fünfter Band | Q130285551 | ||
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P1889 | different from | Jarash, Jerusalem | Q9249682 |
P2044 | elevation above sea level | 600 | |
P1435 | heritage designation | Tentative World Heritage Site | Q1459900 |
P131 | located in the administrative territorial entity | Jerash Governorate | Q750270 |
P421 | located in time zone | UTC+02:00 | Q6723 |
P1082 | population | 50745 | |
P1365 | replaces | Ancient Jerash | Q56072866 |
P910 | topic's main category | Category:Jerash | Q6976436 |
P190 | twinned administrative body | Orăștie | Q262472 |
P2614 | World Heritage criteria | (iv) | Q23038978 |
(iii) | Q23038977 |
Description: The Cardo "Colonnaded Street" in Jerash, Jordan - as seen from the western side
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Q104598217 | Category:Views of Jerash |
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Q5549321 | Gerald Lankester Harding | place of burial | P119 |
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Q3383822 | Dibeen Forest Reserve | significant place | P7153 |
Arabic (ar / Q13955) | جرش | wikipedia |
Egyptian Arabic (arz / Q29919) | جرش | wikipedia |
Catalan (ca / Q7026) | Jerash | wikipedia |
Džaraš | wikipedia | |
cy | Jerash | wikipedia |
Gerasa | wikipedia | |
Γέρασα | wikipedia | |
Jerash | wikipedia | |
en-simple | Jerash | wikipedia |
Gerasa | wikipedia | |
Jerash | wikipedia | |
Basque language (eu / Q8752) | Jerax | wikipedia |
Persian (fa / Q9168) | جرش | wikipedia |
Jerash | wikipedia | |
Jerash | wikipedia | |
gl | Xerasa | wikipedia |
ג'רש | wikipedia | |
hi | जेराश | wikipedia |
Dzseras | wikipedia | |
Ջարաշ | wikipedia | |
hyw | Ժարաշ | wikipedia |
Jerash | wikipedia | |
Jerash | wikipedia | |
ジャラシュ | wikipedia | |
Джараш қаласы | wikipedia | |
제라시 | wikipedia | |
Džarašas | wikipedia | |
ml | ജെറാഷ് | wikipedia |
Jerash | wikipedia | |
nb | Jerash | wikipedia |
Jerash | wikipedia | |
Norwegian, Nynorsk (nn / Q25164) | Jerash | wikipedia |
Dżarasz | wikipedia | |
pnb | جرش | wikipedia |
Gérasa | wikipedia | |
Jerash | wikipedia | |
Джараш | wikipedia | |
Serbo-Croatian (sh / Q9301) | Džeraš | wikipedia |
Džeraš | wikipedia | |
Xherash | wikipedia | |
Џераш | wikipedia | |
Jerash, Jordanien | wikipedia | |
szl | Dżarasz | wikipedia |
tl | Jerash | wikipedia |
Ceraş | wikipedia | |
Джераш | wikipedia | |
Urdu (ur / Q1617) | جرش | wikipedia |
xmf | ჯერაში | wikipedia |
傑拉什 | wikipedia | |
Jerash | wikivoyage | |
Jerash | wikivoyage | |
Jerash | wikivoyage | |
Dżarasz | wikivoyage |
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