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Jerash, Jordan, January 2018 310

In 1806, the German traveler, Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, came across and wrote about the ruins he recognized. In 1885, the Ottoman authorities directed the Circassian immigrants who were mainly of peasant stock to settle in Jerash, and distributed arable land among them.

 

The ancient city has been gradually revealed through a series of excavations which commenced in 1925, and continue to this day.

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