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PETRA
- Petra is believed to have been settled as early as 9,000 BC, and it was possibly established in the 4th century BC as the capital city of the Nabataean Kingdom.
- The Nabataeans were nomadic Arabs who invested in Petra’s proximity to the trade routes by establishing it as a major regional trading hub.
GEOGRAPHY OF JORDAN
- Jordan is situated geographically in Southwest Asia, south of Syria, west of Iraq, northwest of Saudi Arabia and east of Israel and the West Bank; politically, the area has also been referred to in the West as the Middle or Near East.
LAND BOUNDARIES
- Border countries: Iraq 179 km, Israel 307 km, Saudi Arabia 731 km, Syria 379 km, West Bank 148 km
ECONOMY OF JORDAN
- $42.371 billion (nominal, 2018 est.)
- $93.427 billion (PPP, 2018 est.)
R O Y A L F A M I LY
- Abdullah II of Jordan
- King of Jordan since 1999. He belongs to the Hashemite family, who have ruled Jordan since 1921 and claim agnatic descent from Muhammad’s daughter Fatimah.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN
JORDAN TIMELINE
- 1946 – The United Nations recognizes Jordan as an independent sovereign kingdom.
- 1948 – State of Israel created in British-mandate Palestine. Thousands of Palestinians flee Arab-Israeli fighting to West Bank and Jordan.
FIGHTING ISLAMIC STATE
- 2014 September – Jordan is one of four Arab states to take part, together with the US, in air strikes on Islamic State militants in Syria.
- 2014 November – Jordanian authorities arrest the deputy head of the country’s Muslim Brotherhood organisation, in the first arrest of a major opposition figure in Jordan for several years.
FIGHTING ISLAMIC STATE
- 2017 August – Jordan and Iraq reopen their main border crossing for the first time in two years after Islamic State militants were driven from the main highway to Baghdad.
- 2018 June – Street protests against tax hikes and other measures being introduced as part of an austerity programme lead to the fall of Prime Minister Hani Mulki and his replacement with the education minister and economist, Omar al-Razzaz.
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