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    there are the three line El-Kerak Inscription and a few seals. The following is a list of rulers of the ancient kingdom of Moab. Kamōš-ayat,[citation needed]...
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    Kerak Castle (Arabic: قلعة الكرك, romanized: Qal'at al-Karak) is a large medieval castle located in al-Karak, Jordan. It is one of the largest castles...
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    Al-Karak (redirect from Kerak in Moab)
    (Arabic: الكرك) is a city in Jordan known for its medieval castle, the Kerak Castle. The castle is one of the three largest castles in the region, the...
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    the center of the Lordship was moved to Kerak, a stronger fortress to the north of Montreal. Along with Kerak, the castle owed sixty knights to the kingdom...
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    With the coming of the crusaders, the Principality of Kerak was established, after which Kerak was a center front between the Ayyubids and the crusaders...
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    the Kerak Castle by the Sheikh of the Majalis. Sattam, who was expecting Henry's arrival, was notified of this, and decided to ride to Al-Kerak to free...
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    inscription in the name of King Mesha of Moab (a kingdom located in modern Jordan). Mesha tells how Chemosh, the god of Moab, had been angry with his people and...
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    Mesha (category Moab)
    Moabite king named Chemosh-yat is known from the Kerak Inscription. In the Books of Samuel account, Moab is said to have been conquered by David (traditional...
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    as Edom and Moab. It was also referred to as Transjordan. Oultrejordain extended southwards through the Negev to the Gulf of Aqaba (Ile de Graye, now Pharaoh's...
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    Madaba (category Moab)
    Joshua 13:9. Control over the city changed back and forth between Israel and Moab, as mentioned in the Mesha Stele. During its rule by the Roman and Byzantine...
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    Canaan (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the Akkadian Empire in 2154 BC saw the arrival of peoples using Khirbet Kerak ware (pottery), coming originally from the Zagros Mountains (in modern Iran)...
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    Early Bronze Age city located near the Dead Sea, on the south bank of Wadi Kerak with dates in the EB IB, EB II, EB III and EB IVA. Bab edh-Dhra was discovered...
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    capital was Rabbath Ammon; Moab was located in the highlands east of the Dead Sea with the capital at Kir of Moab (Kerak); and Edom in the area around...
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  • Al-Fayez (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    rule large parts of Jordan and Palestine, including the ancient Kingdoms of Moab and Ammon, and parts of modern-day Saudi Arabia until the late 1860s when...
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  • which occurs in the name Kir Haroseth, the modern Kerak, exists in the present local dialect in Moab, under the same form, Harith or Haris." In the 1596...
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    October 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2012. In January 1921, it was reported in Kerak that Abdullah was advancing toward the town at the head of his army. Kirkbride...
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    A large part of Hazor's pottery from that time belongs to the Khirbet Kerak type. A petrographic study of these vessels has shown that they were made...
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    of Montgisard, despite his numerical superiority. Saladin also besieged Kerak in 1183, but was forced to withdraw. He finally launched a full invasion...
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    rebuild the walls; these were again demolished by an-Nasir Da'ud, the emir of Kerak, in the same year. In 1243 Jerusalem came again into the power of the Christians...
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    Counter-castle (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    at Aqaba and on the Isle de Graye/Jazirat Fara’un. In 1142, construction started on the mighty fortress of Kerak (Krak de Moab) in northern Transjordan...
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    advances by Allenby's EEF across the Jordan River and into the hills of Moab to Es Salt and Amman. The Passage of the Jordan was effected by a British...
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    become a large settlement. Most of the recovered pottery is of Khirbet Kerak Ware. The MBA period has not been extensively excavated at the site. During...
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