Amman

by Shami, Seteney

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Amman (Ar. ʿAmmān) is the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (established in 1921 as Transjordan, gaining independence as the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan in 1946), with a population in the early twenty-first century of around 1.2 million, almost one-third of the country’s total population. Amman’s inhabitants include Jordanians and Palestinians, both Christian and Muslim. Circassians and Armenians, who came into the region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, form …

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Amman (Ar. ʿAmmān) is the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (established in 1921 as Transjordan, gaining independence as the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan in 1946), with a population in the early twenty-first century of around 1.2 million, almost one-third of the country’s total population. Amman’s inhabitants include Jordanians and Palestinians, both Christian and Muslim. Circassians and Armenians, who came into the region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, form the main ethnic minorities. Amman’s prehistoric antecedents go back to 6500

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei882

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eng Islam

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Shami, Seteney

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