Qasr Amra
Qasr Amra, often Quseir Amra or Qusayr Amra, is in the Eastern Desert region and is the best-known of the desert castles. It was built early in the 8th century by the Umayyad caliph Walid I whose dominance of the region was rising at the time.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: château
- Also known as: “Kasr Amrah”, “Qasr ‘Amra”, “Qasr `Amrah”, “Qasr al Amra”, “Qusayr ’Amra”, “Quṣayr ‘Amrah”, “Quseir ‘Amra”, “Quseir Amra”, and “قصير عمرة”
Qasr Amra
- Categories: château, castle, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Zarqa Governorate, Eastern Desert, Jordan, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
31.8018° or 31° 48′ 7″ northLongitude
36.5875° or 36° 35′ 15″ eastElevation
568 metres (1,864 feet)Open location code
8G3RRH2Q+P2OpenStreetMap ID
node 597303024OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
247588Wikidata ID
Q499517
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Qasr Amra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قصر عمرة”
- Arabic: “قصر عمره”
- Arabic: “قصير عمرة”
- Armenian: “Քասր Ամրա”
- Basque: “Qasr Amra”
- Burmese: “ကေဆာ အမ်မရာ”
- Catalan: “Qasayr Amra”
- Catalan: “Qasr Amra”
- Catalan: “Qasr Amrah”
- Catalan: “Qusair Amra”
- Catalan: “Qusayr ‘Amra”
- Catalan: “Qusayr Amra”
- Catalan: “Quseir Amra”
- Catalan: “Qussayr Amra”
- Chinese: “古賽爾·阿姆拉”
- Chinese: “库塞尔阿姆拉”
- Chinese: “庫塞爾阿姆拉”
- Croatian: “Kusair Amra”
- Croatian: “Qusair ‘Amra”
- Czech: “Kusejr Amra”
- Dutch: “Quseir Amra”
- Estonian: “Qaşr ‘Amrah”
- Finnish: “Quseir Amra”
- French: “Qusair Amra”
- French: “Qusayr Amra”
- French: “Qusayr’Amra”
- Galician: “Qasr Amra”
- Georgian: “კასრ-ამრა”
- Georgian: “ქასრ ამრა”
- Georgian: “ქასრ-ამრა”
- German: “Qasr Al Amra”
- German: “Qusair ‘Amra”
- German: “Qusair ʿAmra”
- German: “Quṣayr ʿAmrah”
- German: “Quseir Amra”
- Greek: “Κασρ Άμρα”
- Hebrew: “קסר עמרה”
- Hindi: “कसर अमरा”
- Hungarian: “Kuszr Amra”
- Indonesian: “Qasr Amra”
- Italian: “Qasr Amra”
- Italian: “Qusayr Amra”
- Italian: “Quseir Amra”
- Japanese: “アムラ城”
- Lithuanian: “Kasr Amra”
- Macedonian: “Каср Амра”
- Maltese: “Quseir Amra”
- Mingrelian: “ქასრ-ამრა”
- Mongolian: “Кусейр Амра”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Quseir Amra”
- Norwegian: “Quseir Amra”
- Persian: “قصر عمره”
- Persian: “کاخ عمره”
- Polish: “Kasr Amra”
- Polish: “Kusajr Amra”
- Portuguese: “Alcácer de Amira”
- Portuguese: “Qusair Amra”
- Romanian: “Qasr Amra”
- Romanian: “Qusayr ’Amra”
- Russian: “Кусайр-Амра”
- Russian: “Кусейр-Амра”
- Serbian: “Кусаир Амра”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kusair Amra”
- Slovenian: “Qasr Amra”
- Spanish: “Palacio de Qusayr ‘Amra”
- Spanish: “Palacio de Qusayr ‘Amrá”
- Spanish: “Qasayr Amra”
- Spanish: “Qasr Amrah”
- Spanish: “Qusair Amra”
- Spanish: “Quseir Amra”
- Swedish: “Quseir Amra”
- Tatar: “Кусейр-Амра кирмәне хәрабәләре”
- Thai: “กุศ็อยร์อัมเราะฮ์”
- Turkish: “Kusayru Amre”
- Ukrainian: “Кусейр-Амра”
- Urdu: “قصر عمرہ”
- Vietnamese: “Qasr Amra”
- Western Panjabi: “قصر عمرہ”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Qasr Amra”. Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 3.0.