Al-Qarṭuʽiyah
Al-Qarṭuʽiyah is a town in the Amman Governorate of north-western Jordan. It is located several miles north-east of Amman.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Al Qarţū‘īyah”, “Al Qartu`iyah”, and “El Qarṭū‘iya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include ‘Ain Ghazal and Amman Civil Airport.
‘Ain Ghazal
Archaeological site
Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ayn Ghazal is a Neolithic archaeological site located in Amman, Jordan, about 2 km north-west of Amman Civil Airport. The site is remarkable for being the place where the ʿAin Ghazal statues were found, which are among the oldest large-sized statues ever discovered.
Amman Civil Airport
Aerodrome
Amman Civil Airport, commonly known as Marka International Airport, is located in Marka district, Greater Amman Municipality, Jordan, some 5 kilometres northeast of Amman's city centre. Amman Civil Airport is situated 3½ km southeast of Al-Qarṭuʽiyah.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jabal el-Hussein camp and Amman.
Jabal el-Hussein camp
Neighborhood
Jabal el-Hussein camp is one of the 10 officially recognized UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. It is located outside of the Abdali area district of Amman. Jabal el-Hussein camp is situated 4½ km southwest of Al-Qarṭuʽiyah.
Amman
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY 3.0.
Amman is the capital and largest city of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan with a population of about 4 million as of 2020. Amman forms a great base for exploring the country and does, despite popular belief, hold a few items of interest to the traveler.
Marka camp
Neighborhood
The Marka refugee camp is one of six emergency camps erected in 1968 to shelter 15,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the West Bank and the Gaza Strip due to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Marka camp is situated 6 km east of Al-Qarṭuʽiyah.
Al-Qarṭuʽiyah
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Amman Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Scots—“Al-Qarṭuʽiyah” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Al Qartu`iyah”
- Arabic: “القرطوعية”
- Dutch: “Al Qartu`iyah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “القرطوعيه”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Qartu`iyah”
- Persian: “ال قرتویه”
- Persian: “قرتویه”
- Scots: “Al Qartu`iyah”
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