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|  | The city of Amman has a long and interesting history. During the Neolithic period, it was one of the most thriving cities of the region. It was called Rabbath Ammon by the Ammonites. Afterwards it was conquered by Assyrians, Persians, Greeks and Romans. Under the Greek civilization, the city was called Philadelphia and it was one of the Decapolis, the ten important cities in the Middle East. Philadelphia belonged afterwards to the Byzantine Empire and flourished under the Umayyads and the Abbasids.
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| | After several earthquakes and other disasters, Amman was a ruined village. The Ottoman Sultan decided the construction of a railway from Damascus to Medina, with a major station in Amman, that began to grow and in 1921, Abdullah I settled in Amman the seat of the government and later, the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Amman (the core city plus suburbs) today contains over half of the country's population.
Amman was originally built on seven hills, but as it spans, nowadays it covers an area of nineteen hills. |
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