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Amman

[ ah-mahn, ah-mahn ]

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Jordan, in the W part.


Amman

/ əˈmɑːn /

noun

  1. the capital of Jordan, northeast of the Dead Sea: ancient capital of the Ammonites, rebuilt by Ptolemy in the 3rd century bc . Pop: 1 292 000 (2005 est) Ancient namesRabbath AmmonPhiladelphia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Two months earlier, Amman inked a deal that would see it provide clean energy to Tel Aviv in exchange for desalinated water.

From Time

As the war on terror stretched from months into years, thousands of students took off for college campuses in Amman, Cairo and Damascus.

From Ozy

He works at the Royal Scientific Society of Jordan in Amman.

“It’s hard to see why a coastal or island volcano would not be affected by sea level,” says Iain Stewart, a geoscientist at the Royal Scientific Society of Jordan in Amman, who was not involved in the work.

“When I was younger I wanted to learn Hebrew,” 23-year-old Palestinian named Yamen told me recently in Amman, Jordan.

In Amman in the midst of the Iraq War, I had dinner one night with the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

In an effort to save his doomed mission, he hopped on a helicopter from Amman to Ramallah.

They must advocate for the very thing their photo ops in Amman implied, infrastructural integration and political interdependence.

Longstanding Marine outreach efforts to tribal leaders, including in Amman, were finally paying off.

In this house, towards the end of the fifteenth century, lived a man named Zuinglius, amman or bailiff of the district.

The country between the Jordan and Amman offered many obstacles to our advance.

It then winds up a wadi to Es Salt, whence it strikes due eastward to Amman.

The railway to the south of the station was successfully cut, but north of Amman the cutting was not complete.

Sachs, Hans, his descriptions of cuts designed by Jost Amman, 408.

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