Al-Muwaqqar
Al-Muwaqqar is a district in the Amman Governorate of north-western Jordan. The village contains the scant ruins of an Umayyad palace, the Qasr al-Muwaqqar, one of the desert castles.- Village
- …lies at an elevation of around 890 metres (2,920 feet)
- Description: human settlement
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Latitude
31.8131° or 31° 48′ 47″ north
Longitude
36.10846° or 36° 6′ 30″ east
Open location code
8G3RR475+69
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Uzbek—“Al-Muwaqqar” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Al Muwaqqar”
- Arabic: “الموقر”
- Arabic: “جحفية”
- Arabic: “موقر”
- Bengali: “আল-মুওয়াক্কার”
- Catalan: “Al-Muwaqqar”
- Dutch: “Al Muwaqqar”
- Japanese: “ムワッカル”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Al Muwaqqar”
- Persian: “الموقر”
- Scots: “Al Muwaqqar”
- Spanish: “Al Muwaqqar”
- Swedish: “Al-Muwaqqar”
- Turkish: “El-Müvekker”
- Urdu: “الموقر”
- Uzbek: “Al-Muvaqqar qasri”
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