El-‘Iraq
settlement · 1 AD – 2099 AD
At modern El-‘Iraq in Jordan's Karak region, archaeologists have identified Byzantine pottery, architecture (including a church), and inscriptions. They argue, based on the archaeology and on the relative placement of other contemporary settlements on the Madaba map, that this site should be identified as ancient Tharais.
- Coordinates
- 31.09138, 35.63428
- Also known as
- Al Iraq, El-‘Iraq (ar), Tharais (grc), Θαραίς (grc), العراق (ar)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)