Tyrus

settlement · 330 BC – 2100 AD

Hellenistic and Roman settlement in the Jordan Valley. The site contains a large palace, the Qasr al-Abd, dated to the second century CE.

Coordinates

31.91507, 35.75390

Also known as

ʻIrāq al-Amīr, ʻArak el-Emir, ʻArâḳ il-Emîr, Arrag el-Emir, Aâraq el-Emyr, ʻArâq el-Emir (arb), عراق الأمير (arb)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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