Jordan, a Museum of history and nature.

JRT00043

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Jordan, a Museum of history and nature.

Collection title

Ruins

JRT00043

Source

JRTV (JO)

First broadcast date

1998

Production year

1998

Abstract

Amman, the ancient and modern capital of Jordan is one of the cities which has been inhabited for centuries.Thanks to science, fossils have shown the presence of archaeological sites dating back to the stone age.( about 7 thousand years B.C) Amman was the capital of the Ummayads, they called it " Rhabbat Ammon". Under the reign of Ptolemy Viladelphos (3rd century B.C ), it became Philadelphia. When Philadelphia was colonized by the Alcelinos and Nabateans , it became part of the “Decapolis”; the ten cities which made a fragile alliance under the Roman rule. In 1878, the Ottomans re-settled some migrants in Amman. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the neighboring city of Salt was an important administrative center until the reign of the Prince Abdullah Ben Hussein who built a state in the East of Jordan and took Amman as the capital for modern Jordan.

Type

video

Production companies

Television - Own production

Broadcaster

JRTV - Jordan Television

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Primary theme

Tourism and cultural sites

Secondary themes

Tourism and cultural sites / Archaeological sites
Tourism and cultural sites / Urbanism and cities
Tourism and cultural sites / Tourist sites
Tourism and cultural sites / Urbanism and cities / Capitals

Credits / Cast

Al raidi Bechar - Director
Abanda Fakher - Speaker
Erratima Abderrahmane - Author of original work

Period of events

From 1500 to 1800

Map locations

Jordan - Transjordan Plateau - Amman

Original language

Arabic

Media running time

2m30

Additional information

Transcript

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Jordan, a Museum of history and nature.

Jordan, a Museum of history and nature.

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- The modern and ancient capital city of Jordan

- is one of the towns on earth that have always been inhabited.

- The excavations showed the existence of traces

- that date back to the Stone Age,

- about 7000 before our era.

- It was the Ammonites capital

- who called it “Rabbath-Ammon”,

- it then became Philadelphia

- under Ptolemy Philadelphus

- in the 300 AD.

- After its fall

- in the Alcelinos and Nabateans’ hands,

- it became a part of the Decapolis,

- a fragile alliance

- of 10 towns under Roman rule.

- In the 19th century,

- the Ottomans moved back the emigrants to Amman in 1878.

- The neighboring town of Salt was,

- till the beginning of the 20th century,

- more important, as an administrative center.

- Up to Prince Abdallah Ben Al-Hussein’s arrival,

- the founder of a state in the east of the country,

- Amman was appointed as the new capital city of Jordan.

- Since then,

- Amman started growing very rapidly

- and it became a prosperous modern town thanks to the population

- that surpassed one million inhabitants.

- Among the more noticeable monuments

- in Amman,

- we can quote the old castle

- that overhang for the town from the top of the Al-Qalaa mountain,

- the castle was built on the ancient site of Rabbath-Ammon,

- the excavations revealed many old

- Roman, Byzantine and Islamic remains,

- the largest building in the qalaa

- is the castle

- that dates back to the Umayyads’ time,

- it also has a huge door,

- a courtroom along with 4 rooms.

- There is also a baptized street crossing the resort.

- Music

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