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Qasr Harrana remains very well preserved, and is open to tourist visitors from 8 am to 6 pm from May to September, and 8 am to 4 pm the rest of the year. [12] The area is fenced off with a visitors' center on the southeast corner, where the main entrance to the castle area is located.
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 .
Al-Dumayr, site of a qasr possibly dating to the Byzantine period, maybe built by the Ghassanids, but possibly Umayyad; Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi, a "desert castle" in the Syrian Desert; Qasr al-Hayr ash-Sharqi, a large "desert castle" in the Syrian Desert of a "different and higher status", [37] described as a madinah or semi-urban settlement. [39]
Qasr al-Muwaqqar and Qasr al-Mushash: Jordan: Qasr al-Muwaqqar (Arabic: قصر الموقر), and Qasr al-Mushash (Arabic: قصر المشاش), were built in 723 AD, is the ruins of an Umayyad complex, the Qasr al-Muwaqqar, a qasr-type fortified palace also known as a desert castle. The original castles are mostly destroyed. [14] Qasr Bayir ...
Qasr al-Qatraneh (Arabic: قلعة القطرانة; alternatively: "Qatraneh" or "Qatrana Castle," "Fortress Qatrana," or "Khan Qatraneh") is an Ottoman structure which largely served to provide water and protection on the Syrian pilgrimage route between the Levant and the Gulf.
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Qasr Al Abd 3D Model (south view) Qasr al-Abd (Arabic: قصر العبد, lit. 'Castle of the Slave') is a large Hellenistic palace from the first quarter of the second century BCE. [1] Most scholars agree it was built by the Tobiads, a notable Jewish family of the Second Temple period, although the descriptions doesn't mention that. [2]
Qasr-e Shirin (Persian: قصرشيرين, [a] is a city in the Central District of Qasr-e Shirin County, Kermanshah province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. [4] Its population in 2016 was 18,473. It is a Free-trade zone (FTZ) and is populated by Kurds. [5] [6]