Capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the largest city and an area with suburbs 80 square kilometers. Amman is located in the center of the country on the sword of the desert over a small mountain close numbering 14 mountain. And going through the narrow railway linking Syria to the north and senses Jazeera Arab south.
Oman is a commercial hub and industrially important, as attested industry remarkable development is industry cement, phosphate, oil refining, plastics, leather, pipes, and food industry Kalmekrona biscuits, making cigarettes and tobacco, and marble cutting and polishing, and the shops rich types of manufactured goods at home and imported from abroad, and various kinds of handicrafts and crafts, glass making and coincidences and embroidery, and making necklaces and olive wood sculpture, and the pharmaceutical industry.
Famous Amman its evolving international airport, and the University of upscale, involving various scientific disciplines and branches. And highlights of Oman her great sports city and the King Hussein Medical City frequented by patients from various Arab countries, and are the most accurate and dangerous operations such as open heart, brain and kidney transplants.
It Amman landmarks large Roman theater, the castle and its mosque mosque.
Oman very old city mentioned as Ammon, the capital of the Ammonites who had their kingdom in that area the year 1200 BC.. After the Ammonites Oman underwent rule Assyrians Valababliyn.
In the third century.. Entered in the rule of the Greeks and Philadelphia is named after one of their kings and was named Philadelphus, and called the name of Ptolemy II.
Oman was Sham gate and one of the most important ports of trade between East and West due to its strategic location. It was crossed by caravans carrying trade of India and China across the Red Sea in what was known as that day accidentally incense. Opened Arabs in 635 after it had been in the hands of the Romans since 31 BC.. Historians have described the Arabs Oman and they praised its commercial position and they said was Balqa rod. And it was the same villages and farms, where several rivers and Erhah run the water, and had a mosque on the edge of the market Mvsevs saucer semi Mecca, and Palace was Goliath on a mountain overlooking them, and the tomb of Oria Prophet, and it mosque, where stadium Suleiman bin Daoud.
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