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Amman
(ä′män′, ä män′)
capital of Jordan, in the NW part: pop. 1,300,000: it is the Biblical city Rabbah
See Amman in American Heritage Dictionary 4
The capital and largest city of Jordan, in the north-central part of the country. Occupying a site inhabited since prehistoric times, the city was known as Philadelphia while the Romans and Byzantines controlled it. Population: 1,040,000.
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