Qasr al-Azraq
Qasr al-Azraq is a large fortress located in present-day eastern Jordan. It is one of the desert castles, located on the outskirts of present-day town of Azraq, roughly 100 km east of Amman.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: castle in Jordan
- Also known as: “Azraq”, “Azraq Duruz”, “Kasr el Azrak”, “Qasr al Azraq”, “Qaşr al Azraq”, “Qasr Al-Azraq”, “Qasr Azraq”, and “Qasr el Azraq”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Azraq.
Azraq
Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Azraq is a small town in Zarqa Governorate in central-eastern Jordan, 100 kilometres east of Amman. The population of Azraq was 9,021 in 2004. The Muwaffaq Salti Air Base is located in Azraq.
Qasr al-Azraq
- Categories: castrum, castle, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Amman Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.88018° or 31° 52′ 49″ northLongitude
36.82726° or 36° 49′ 38″ eastElevation
518 metres (1,699 feet)Open location code
8G3RVRJG+3WOpenStreetMap ID
node 597297758OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Qasr al-Azraq” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قصر الأزرق”
- Arabic: “قلعة الأزرق”
- Basque: “Quasr Al Azraq”
- Bengali: “কাসর আল-আজরাক”
- Catalan: “Qasr Al Azraq”
- Catalan: “Qasr al-Azraq”
- Catalan: “Qasr al-Àzraq”
- Dutch: “Qasr Azraq”
- French: “Amatha, Amata”
- French: “Qasr al-Azraq”
- French: “Qasr Azraq”
- German: “Qasr al-Azraq”
- German: “Qasr al”
- German: “Qasr Azraq”
- Greek: “Κασρ Άζρακ”
- Hebrew: “קסר עזראק”
- Italian: “Qasr Azraq”
- Romanian: “Qasr Azraq”
- Slovenian: “Qasr Azraq”
- Spanish: “Qasr Al Azraq”
- Swedish: “Qasr al-Azraq”
- Swedish: “Qasr Azraq”
- Swedish: “Qusayr Azraq”
- Turkish: “Ezrak Kalesi”
- Ukrainian: “Каср-Азрак”
- Ukrainian: “Каср-ель-Азрак”
- Urdu: “قصر ازرق”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Qasr al-Azraq”. Photo: Zone42, CC BY-SA 3.0.