Citadel Hill

Local nameتل القلعة
Location

The Amman Citadel is an archeological site at the center of downtown Amman, the capital of Jordan. The L-shaped hill is one of the seven hills that originally made up Amman.

The Citadel has a long history of occupation by many great civilizations. Evidence of inhabitance since the Neolithic period has been found and the hill was fortified during the Bronze Age. The hill became the capital of the Kingdom of Ammon sometime after 1200 BCE. It later came under the sway of empires such as the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Neo-Babylonian Empire, the Ptolemies, the Seleucids, Romans, Byzantines and the Umayyads.

Tags RuinsArchaeological SiteHistoricalFortification
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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amman_Citadel

More information http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/jordan/amman/citadel.html

Address K. Ali Ben Al-Hussein St. 146, Amman, Jordan

Coordinates 31°57'16.966" N 35°56'4.305" E

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