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Qasr Harrana (Arabic: قصر حرّانة), sometimes Qasr al-Kharana, Harana, Qasr al-Harrana, Qasr al-Haranah, Haraneh, Khauranee, or Hraneh, is one of the best-known of the desert castles located in present-day eastern Jordan, about 60 kilometres (37 mi) east of Amman and relatively close to the border with Saudi Arabia.
Wadi Harrana is a seasonal stream in the eastern Jordanian Badia, about sixty kilometers southeast of the city of Amman. [1] [2] It runs eastwards from the edge of the Jordanian Highlands to the Azraq oasis. [3] Qasr Kharana
Qasr Al-Kharanah: Jordan: Qasr Kharana (Arabic: قصر خرّانة), sometimes Qasr al-Harrana, Qasr al-Kharanah, Kharaneh or Hraneh, is one of the best-known of the desert castles located in present-day eastern Jordan, about 60 kilometres (37 mi) east of Amman It is believed to have been built sometime before the early 8th century AD and ...
Qasr al-Kharana, one of the Umayyad desert castles located in present-day Jordan. The desert castles or qasrs are often called Umayyad desert castles, since the vast majority of these fortified palaces or castles were built by the Umayyad dynasty in their province of Bilad ash-Sham, with a few Abbasid exceptions.
It was founded on March 11, 1827 as a Military hospital and School of Medicine. In 1925, the school became a part of Cairo University becoming Its Faculty of Medicine. [1] The faculty has Its own Hospital, Qasr El-Eyni Hospital, which is under the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population. Faculty Campus in Cairo. Qasr Al-Ainy teaching hospital.
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Qasr al-Sir (Arabic: قصر السر; Hebrew: קסר א-סיר, lit. Fortress of Mystery ) is a Bedouin village in the Negev desert in southern Israel , adjacent to highway 25 . The village covers 4,776 dunams (477.6 hectares ). [ 2 ]
The site is called Mugharat al-Kaniseh (Cave of the Church) by the local community. [1] A view of the town. About 500 metres south of the town stands an archaeological site known as Al-Iraq, dominated by a partially restored Hellenistic period palace known as Qasr al-Abd, which is dated to the late 2nd century BCE.