Khirbet Yajouz
Khirbet Yajouz is an archaeological site in Shafa Badran area, located 11 km northeast of Amman, Jordan. An ancient Roman city was built on the site around the 4th century ACE.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Yazan Al-Hajjaj, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in Greater Amman Municipality, Jordan
- Also known as: “Khirbet Yajouz archaeological site”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jabal el-Hussein camp and Baqa’a camp.
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 8 km south of Khirbet Yajouz.
Baqa’a camp
Village
The Baqa'a refugee camp, first created in 1968, lies in Balqa Governorate, 20 km north of the Jordanian capital Amman, and is home to around 100,000 Palestinian refugees who are registered as such with the United Nations. Baqa’a camp is situated 8 km northwest of Khirbet Yajouz.
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.
Khirbet Yajouz
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Amman Governorate, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.03618° or 32° 2′ 10″ northLongitude
35.91499° or 35° 54′ 54″ eastOpen location code
8G4Q2WP7+FXOpenStreetMap ID
node 8855279411OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q63122013
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In Other Languages
“Khirbet Yajouz” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خربة ياجوز الأثرية”
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