Ash Shaghur
Ash Shaghur is a village in Balqa Governorate, Jordan. Ash Shaghur is situated nearby to the neighborhood Sodom?, as well as near the locality Wadi Qusayb.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tell el-Hammam and Tell er-Rameh.
Tell el-Hammam
Archaeological site
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Tell el-Hammam is an archaeological site in the Amman Governorate of Jordan, in the eastern part of the lower Jordan Valley 11.7 kilometers east of the Jordan River and not far from its mouth.
Tell er-Rameh
Archaeological site
Photo: Deg777, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tell er-Rameh or Tall el-Rama is a small mound in Jordan rising in the plain east of the River Jordan, about twelve miles from Jericho. It presently has a Muslim cemetery on the acropolis that prevents it from being excavated.
Ash Shaghur
- Type: Village
- Also known as: “Al Shaghur”, “Ash Shāghūr”, “Ash Shāgūr”, “El Shaghur”, “Esh Shāghūr”, “Shaghur”, and “Shāghūr”
- Category: locality
- Location: Balqa Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.83084° or 31° 49′ 51″ northLongitude
35.66547° or 35° 39′ 56″ eastElevation
-209 metres (-686 feet)Open location code
8G3QRMJ8+85OpenStreetMap ID
node 799099693OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
250295
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Greek—“Ash Shaghur” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الشاغور”
- French: “Ash Shaghur”
- German: “Ash Shaghur”
- Greek: “Ας Σαγούρ”
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