The history of the city dates back to the Iron Age to the year 1200 BC and punish Moabites, Assyrians, Nabateans and the Greeks and Romans, Byzantines.
It was the city's history with Saladin, who fought King Arnat The importance of Karak at the time they were protecting Jerusalem because of its strategic location in the role of preventing the meeting between the Arabs and Arab Levant Egypt, being a control station on the road to the pilgrims. It was a fierce warrior king Arnat adventurer faced Salahuddin three of Krk campaigns until he was able in 1188 to occupy the castle was fortified Arnat holed the fear out of it but he was killed in the battle of Hittin and struck him was a prisoner Salah al-Din with his sword and died.
Karak and flourished during the reign of the Ayyubid whatever prosperity Vtjaddedt doors and Termmt castle walls and rebuilt villages and interested in planting trees and liquefaction springs.
Remained Karak prosperous and Tmoninih despite the differences that intensified between the sultans of the Ayyubid and exposed region of the invasion of the Mongols and the occupied Zahir Baybars Karak Vaatny out and dig new about the city and its castle trenches, and lived Karak again quiet life to that occupied by the Ottomans in 1516. Because of the distance from the central Ottoman power Tkhasamt tribes among themselves on command and control. Karak and lived during the period of Turkish rule obnoxious control.
Perhaps the best Karak what has been written in the words of Ibn Battuta (Mohammad Bin Abdullah 1303 1377) in his book "rihla":
"Then deported to Karak Fort. It forts and stop her admired and best known. The so-called Castle of crow. Valley Spectrum him from all its sides and has one door may carving entrance to in hard rock, and the entrance Dhlisah as well. In this fort holed Kings, the mechanism resort in calamities and has resorted King Nasser. Because Crown King, a small age. Vastoly the measure is owned Salar MP with him. King Nasser, this indicates that he wants pilgrimage. concurred princes on it. so he headed to the pilgrimage. When he arrived at the obstacle of Elah, took refuge in the fort and established the days that meant princes Sham . I met by the Mamluks and had King Crown in that period Baybars Alchinker a Prince of food and called King Muzaffar. He who built khanqah Albebarsah the vicinity of happy happy Khanqah built by Salah al-Din ibn Ayyub. Vqsdh King Nasser Balasakr. Favre Baybars to the desert. He followed him Asaker He seized him, and brought him to the king Nasser ordered to kill him, was killed. He was arrested on the Salar and imprisonment in the den until he died of starvation. It is said that eat carrion from hunger. and stayed behind in outside Karak four days, the locus is called Tuck. and Tjhezwa to enter the wild and then Artgelna to gloss, Syria, which is another obstacle we came from Flint to the desert which say: inside and outside of a missing child. Messier and after two days we went down with a pilgrimage husban not architecture which then Valley Bldh no water in it. "
The Qalqashandi (Ahmed bin Ali 1355-1410) in his book "Sobh A'sha in writing construction" as follows:
"Karak know your firstborn Shobak to approach her. It is updated construction city. The Dera Atdberh monks. Then they multiplied Vkbroa build. And shelter them from proximate of the Christians. Faqamt them by the markets, and rotate the lives of. And Ott him Franks. Vodaroa walls. Became a great city. Then They built the fortress in order to strongholds and Ohsnha. and stayed Franks Mstolen it even opened the Sultan Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, by fair Abu Bakr, his brother. He said in the "definition": They had worked the boats and passed it to the Caspian to the intention of the Hijaz Sharif, things Sultha them themselves. He ordered them Sultan Salahuddin they took to me and slaughtered them on'Aqabah where slave women hull by. and continued in the hands of the Muslims from that day. and taken by the kings of Islam Hrza, but their money treasure. It is still the kings Astkhalafon by their children and they consider their concerns. It is a fertile country, Boade bath Many orchards, and fruit favorite. Albuladra said in Fattouh Sham: The city of Koura in this old Aerndl ".
It is located 26 kilometers west of Karak archaeological place called "arm" inhabitants successive waves of peoples and found the water and fertile land and easy passage of the Palestinian territories door. The date of this site for the period between 2850-2250 BC. The tomb was found at the site provided a model stranger to bury the dead as the skeletons found in the graves and skulls in other graves.
In a nearby site dates back to the Early Bronze age called Numeira surrounded by a wall of stone it found stoned Numeira, a remnant of the buildings of Nabatiyeh.
Place rises 726 meters above sea level, just four kilometers to the north of the torrent positive and just 64 kilometers south of Amman and opposite Mount Shehan surrounded this mountain canyons of the west and north-east and to inform the population of walls since the early Bronze Age and then chosen by Moabites since the third century Ten BC to be the capital of their kingdom. Israelis was soon coming from Egypt that were defeated in this site Chihon Theban army and fell in their grip. When he died Ahab king of Israel, the King, "Mica" the king of Moab rebelled and the expulsion of the invaders from this site.
We have not received all the effects of this city and its culture, but what is stated in old books and Obelisk Mica. The obelisk Mica history goes back to the year 835 BC. And it has a length of 92 centimeters and presented more than 57 centimeters. News spread find this obelisk and heard the French embassy in Jerusalem in 1867 went Cultural Charles Claire Moon Kano to Zeban supplement trying to purchase, acquisition, agreed with the villagers on the price after that picked her photographs and he went to get them the amount of Jerusalem, but the villagers disenchanted that the stone Includes gold Vohalo it on fire and then poured the water and quickly break when the French came back from Jerusalem, he found what he found when he had gathered the remnants of the obelisk and compiled according to images taken by NASA and send it to the Louvre in France, where it is still there now. This world is the first solution of this obelisk symbols and translated.
Perhaps most important, this obelisk is supplied by the Theban was the capital of Mica, who was born and where keen on the safety and welfare of his people and his country free from Israeli invaders and expanded the borders of his kingdom and Fort cities walls and rebuilt the roads, cities and digging water wells and ponds.
It is close to the Theban old areas of interest and site effects Araar scientists and situated five kilometers and a half from the town of Um Zeban and lead, which are located between the road and the Theban Desert and some impacts of the Nabateans, Romans, Byzantines.
And between Karak and Mount Shihan city and to the south-east flourished rich civilization and left behind residues that are defying time and highlights the genius of the human mind, which has sought a researcher from the residence site to protect itself from the aspirants.
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