Jerash

Jerash is the capital and the biggest town of Jerash Governorate, Jordan, with a populace of 50,745 as of 2015. It is placed forty eight kilometres north of the capital of Jordan, Amman. The records of the city is a mix of the Greco-Roman global of the Mediterranean Basin and the historical traditions of the Arab Orient.The call of the town reflects this interaction. The earliest Arab/Semitic population, who lived within the vicinity at some stage in the pre-classical length of the first millennium BCE, named their village Garshu. The Romans later Hellenized the previous name of Garshu into Gerasa. Later, the call converted into the Arabic Jerash.

The city flourished until the mid-eighth century CE, while the 749 Galilee earthquake destroyed huge elements of it, at the same time as next earthquakes contributed to additional destruction. However, In the early twelfth century, through the 12 months 1120, Zahir ad-Din Toghtekin, atabeg of Damascus ordered a garrison of 40 guys stationed in Jerash to transform the Temple of Artemis into a fort. It was captured in 1121 by way of Stanley Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, and fully destroyed. Then, the Crusaders without delay abandoned Jerash and withdrew to Sakib; the japanese border of the settlement.