Amman
a city in and the capital of Jordan, in the W part.
- Also called Rabbath Ammon.
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“When I was younger I wanted to learn Hebrew,” 23-year-old Palestinian named Yamen told me recently in Amman, Jordan.
Israel’s Murdered Teenagers and Dying Hopes for Peace | Sarah Shourd | July 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn Amman in the midst of the Iraq War, I had dinner one night with the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
In an effort to save his doomed mission, he hopped on a helicopter from Amman to Ramallah.
They must advocate for the very thing their photo ops in Amman implied, infrastructural integration and political interdependence.
Israelis and Palestinians: Getting Down To Business | Bernard Avishai | June 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTLongstanding Marine outreach efforts to tribal leaders, including in Amman, were finally paying off.
Iraq War 10th Anniversary: What Does Fiasco Mean? | John Kael Weston | March 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
In this house, towards the end of the fifteenth century, lived a man named Zuinglius, Amman or bailiff of the district.
History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Vol 2 | J. H. Merle D'AubignThe country between the Jordan and Amman offered many obstacles to our advance.
With the British Army in The Holy Land | Henry Osmond LockIt then winds up a wadi to Es Salt, whence it strikes due eastward to Amman.
With the British Army in The Holy Land | Henry Osmond LockThe railway to the south of the station was successfully cut, but north of Amman the cutting was not complete.
With the British Army in The Holy Land | Henry Osmond LockSachs, Hans, his descriptions of cuts designed by Jost Amman, 408.
A Treatise on Wood Engraving | John Jackson
British Dictionary definitions for Amman
/ (əˈmɑːn) /
the capital of Jordan, northeast of the Dead Sea: ancient capital of the Ammonites, rebuilt by Ptolemy in the 3rd century bc . Pop: 1 292 000 (2005 est): Ancient names: Rabbath Ammon, Philadelphia
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