Al ’Arid
Al `Arid is a town in the Madaba Governorate of western Jordan. Al ’Arid has about 400 residents.- Type: Locality with 400 residents
- Description: human settlement in Jordan
- Also known as: “Al ‘Arid”, “Al ‘Arīḑ”, “Al `Arid”, and “El ‘Arīd”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Machaerus.
Machaerus
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Machaerus was a Hasmonean hilltop palace and desert fortress, rebuilt by Herod and now in ruins, in the village of Mukawir in modern-day Jordan. The site is located 25 km southeast of the mouth of the Jordan River on the eastern side of the Dead Sea. Machaerus is situated 3½ km west of Al ’Arid.
Al ’Arid
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Madaba Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Uzbek—“Al ’Arid” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Al ‘Arid”
- Albanian: “Al ’Arid”
- Arabic: “العريض”
- Dutch: “Al ‘Arid”
- Egyptian Arabic: “العريض”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al ‘Arid”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al ’Arid”
- Persian: “ارید”
- Persian: “ال آرید”
- Polish: “Al-Arid”
- Romanian: “Al ‘Arid”
- Romanian: “Al ’Arid”
- Uzbek: “Al-Arid”
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