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< p class = "blog-post-meta" > < time datetime = "2017-04-05T08:50:44+03:00" > Wed Apr 05, 2017< / time > by Alan Orth in
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< p > Jordan’ s location in the geographical “ near east” has exposed the country to dozens of civilizations over the course of history. Over the last three thousand years alone this region has experienced the coming and going of the Persian, Greek, Roman, Nabataean, Byzantine, and Ottoman < / p >
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< p > The ruins in Jerash are one of those legacies. Complete with arches, colonnades, hippodrome, baths, theaters, temples, and more, Jerash is the most well-preserved of Jordan’ s Greco– < / p >
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