Rise this city nearly six hundred meters above sea level and this city dates back to its founding in the era of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BC, but they show some of the effects of the Bronze Age city of about 500.2 BC. And return some of the effects that were discovered in the north of Jerash to the Iron Age.
This city has enjoyed calm, stability and peace and was very impressed with the Romanian civilization and has become one of the ten cities and the successive eras and spread the Christian religion until he became its bishop in 451. Then occupied by the armies of the Persians and destroyed churches. And their connection to the Muslim Arabs, led by Ben Sharhabeel well in the time of Caliph Omar and controlled by and in the year 635 AD. But successive earthquakes in these areas led to the complete collapse.
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