Capitolias
Capitolias was an ancient city east of the Jordan River, and is identified with the modern village of Beit Ras in the Irbid Governorate in northern Jordan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: archaeological site in Jordan
- Also known as: “Bayt Ra’s”, “Bayt Ras”, “Bayt Rās”, and “Beit Râs”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Irbid camp and Irbid.
Irbid camp
Neighborhood
Irbid Camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located outside of Irbid. It was one of the four camps founded in Jordan to accommodate the refugees of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, the others being Jabal el-Hussein camp, Al-Wehdat refugee camp and Zarqa Camp. Irbid camp is situated 4 km south of Capitolias.
Irbid
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Irbid is a city in northern Jordan, some 88 km north of the capital Amman. Archaeological evidence reveals that Irbid has been settled since the Bronze Age.
Aydoun
Town
Aydoun is the name of a city in Irbid Governorate in Jordan. Some writers associate the town with the ancient city of Dium, one of the cities of the Decapolis, but this is disputed. It had a population of 63,244 as of 2018. Aydoun is situated 10 km south of Capitolias.
Capitolias
- Categories: archaeological site and locality
- Location: Irbid Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.59848° or 32° 35′ 55″ northLongitude
35.85329° or 35° 51′ 12″ eastElevation
585 metres (1,919 feet)Open location code
8G4QHVX3+98OpenStreetMap ID
node 798858313OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Capitolias” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيت رأس”
- Arabic: “بيت راس”
- Arabic: “كابيتولياس”
- Finnish: “Kapitolias”
- French: “Bayt Ras”
- French: “Beït Ras”
- German: “Adun”
- German: “Bayt Ras”
- German: “Capitolias”
- Hebrew: “דיאון”
- Hebrew: “קפיתוליאס”
- Italian: “Capitoliade”
- Italian: “Capitolias”
- Mazanderani: “بیت راس”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beit Ras”
- Persian: “بیت رأس (اربد)”
- Persian: “بیت رأس”
- Romanian: “Beit Ras”
- Spanish: “Adun”
- Spanish: “Bayt Ras”
- Spanish: “Beit Ras”
- Spanish: “Capitolias”
- Spanish: “Dion”
- Swedish: “Adun”
- Swedish: “Ajlun”
- Swedish: “Capitolias”
- Swedish: “Dion”
- Ukrainian: “Капітоліда”
- Urdu: “بیت راس”
Localities in the Area
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Highlights include مسجد معاوية بن ابي سفيان؟ and مسجد بيت راس القديم.
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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 “Capitolias”. Photo: Zachchan2015, CC BY-SA 4.0.