AMMAN / JORDAN
- City Information
Opening 2004
Amman is where the new world meets the old, gracefully, without conflict. The
latest architectures innovations exists side by side with culture of an ancient
civilisation, and this paradox extends to the people with exquisite manners.
Today, it has grown and extend to become one of the most hospitable city one can
visit. Initially built on seven main hills, Amman was a small village since the
beginning of this century only counting 2000 inhabitants.
Amman is also considered as one of the oldest city on earth, as excavation have
shown that people were living there 3500 years before Christ. At this period it
was called Rabbat Ammon and has permanently been inhabited since then. Civilisations
followed one another as Amman has always at the crossing of important commercial
roads leading to Greece, Syria, Cyprus and Mesopotamia .
Among those civilisations we can mention Ammonites, Babylonians, Seleucides, Nabateans,
Romans and Circassians. Amman became capital of Transjordania in 1920 and capital
of Hashemite Kingdom in 1950, today it's a busy town with 2 millions inhabitants.
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