Qasr el-Hallabat

fort · 30 BC – 2100 AD

The complex at Qasr el-Hallabat began as a Roman frontier fort along the Via Nova Traiana under the emperor Caracalla. There is evidence for pre-Roman activity at the site (Nabatean). By the eighth century, the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ordered that the Roman structures be demolished in order to redevelop the outpost as an Umayyad desert complex.

Coordinates

32.09291, 36.32795

Also known as

Hallabat, Khallabat, Koseir el Hallabat, Qasr al Hallabat, Qasr al Hallabat (en), Qasr al Hallabat (en), Qasr el Hallabat, Qasr el Hallābat, Qasr el Hallābāt, Qaşr al Ḩallābāt, al-Hallabat, qsr alhlabat, Халлабат (rus), قصر الحلّابات (ara)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• iDAI.gazetteer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) · CC BY
  iDAI.gazetteer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (CC BY)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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