Jordanian Geography

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  1. Complete the sentence about Amman with the correct year: The city was largely abandoned during the Ottoman period from the 15th century until ______, when Circassians were resettled there.
  2. Complete the sentence about Amman with the correct year: Amman grew after it was connected to the Hejaz Railway, and the subsequent formation of its first municipal council in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Zarqa with the correct year: On 10 April ______, the Ottoman governor issued a decree authorizing Chechen immigrants to own the land on which they had settled.
  4. Complete the sentence about Zarqa with the correct year: On 18 November ______, the new Jordanian government issued a decree to establish the first municipal council for Zarqa.
  5. Complete the sentence about Irbid with the correct year: The population of Irbid swelled in the late 19th century, and prior to ______ it served as a significant centre of transit trade.
  6. Complete the sentence about Irbid with the correct year: The greater Irbid Municipality was established in ______ in the late Ottoman period, making it the oldest municipality in Jordan.
  7. Complete the sentence about Russeifa with the correct year: The city has been known for phosphate mining since ______, when deposits were discovered by Amin Kamel Kawar.
  8. Complete the sentence about Madaba with the correct year: In ______, 90 Arab Christian families from Al Karak resettled the ruins of Madaba, led by two Italian priests from the Latin Patriarchate of J…
  9. Complete the sentence about Madaba with the correct year: In ______, it was the clearance of debris from one such site that led to the uncovering of the 6th-century Madaba Map mosaic.
  10. Complete the sentence about Madaba with the correct year: The Madaba Map mosaic was discovered in ______ during the construction of the church of St.
  11. Complete the sentence about Salt, Jordan with the correct year: In ______, the city of Salt was inscribed at the UNESCO World Heritage list.
  12. Complete the sentence about Mafraq with the correct year: In ______, the Municipality of Mafraq was established, with Ali Abdeyyah as its first mayor.
  13. Complete the sentence about Jerash with the correct year: In the census of ______, it had a population of 12 Muslim households.
  14. Complete the sentence about Ajloun with the correct year: In ______, during the Ottoman Empire, Ajloun was noted in the census as being located in the nahiya of Ajloun in the liwa of Ajloun.
  15. Complete the sentence about Ajloun with the correct year: In ______ Ajloun's inhabitants were predominantly Sunni Muslims and Greek Christians.
  16. Complete the sentence about Tafilah with the correct year: A certain Martin, who was a lord of Tafilah during the Crusader period, is mentioned in a text dated ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Sahab, Jordan with the correct year: The plantation was originally worked by Egyptian migrant farmers who purchased and permanently settled the lands in ______ and develope…
  18. Complete the sentence about Sahab, Jordan with the correct year: Sahab had been part of Amman's city limits but became its own municipality in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Wadi Musa with the correct year: During the Arab Revolt, Turkish forces under the command of Mehmed Djemal Pasha attacked Wadi Musa on 21 Oct. ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Wadi Musa with the correct year: The Jordanian census of ______ found 654 inhabitants in Wadi Musa.
  21. Complete the sentence about Wadi Musa with the correct year: The excavators tentatively identified the site with the village of al-'Udmal mentioned by Al-Nuwayri in connection with Sultan Baybars's __…
  22. Complete the sentence about Wadi Rum with the correct year: Currently, the majority is made up by the Zalabieh Bedouins who arrived to the region around ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Jordan River with the correct year: Lynch's ______ book Narrative of the United States' Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea is available online.
  24. Complete the sentence about Jordan River with the correct year: In ______, Israel began operating a pumping station that diverts water from the Sea of Galilee to the National Water Carrier.
  25. Complete the sentence about Jordan River with the correct year: The flow rate of the Jordan River once was 1.3 billion cubic metres per year; as of ______, just 20 to 30 million cubic metres per year…
  26. Complete the sentence about Wadi Mujib with the correct year: The Mujib Dam was completed in ______ at the bottom of the wadi, where the modern road crosses the river.
  27. Complete the sentence about Azraq Wetland Reserve with the correct year: As of ______, there are more than 500 illegal wells still pumping water from Azraq.
  28. Complete the sentence about Mount Nebo with the correct year: On March 20, ______, Pope John Paul II visited the summit of Mount Nebo during his pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
  29. Complete the sentence about Mount Nebo with the correct year: Pope Benedict XVI visited the site in ______, gave a speech, and looked out from the top of the mountain in the direction of Jerusalem.
  30. Complete the sentence about Mount Nebo with the correct year: Saller O.F.M. was continued in ______ by Jerome Mihaic of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum.
  31. Complete the sentence about Mount Nebo with the correct year: On the highest point of the mountain, Syagha, the remains of a Byzantine church and monastery were discovered in ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Mount Nebo with the correct year: In ______, the Custody of the Holy Land decided to restore the mosaic floors and Virgilio Corbo was put in charge of the project.
  33. Complete the sentence about Gulf of Aqaba with the correct year: Movement on one of these faults caused the ______ Gulf of Aqaba earthquake.
  34. Complete the sentence about Bethany Beyond the Jordan with the correct year: The complete area was abandoned after the ______ Six-Day War, when both banks of the Jordan became part of the frontline.
  35. Complete the sentence about Qasr Kharana with the correct year: In ______, Sir John Edward Gray Hill, an English explorer, noted two deep cisterns that had apparently fallen out of use.
  36. Complete the sentence about Qasr Azraq with the correct year: Qasr al-Azraq underwent its final major stage of building in ______ CE, when 'Izz ad-Din Aybak, an emir of the Ayyubids, redesigned and fo…
  37. Complete the sentence about Karak Castle with the correct year: In ______ Saladin besieged the castle in response to Raynald's attacks.
  38. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The last siege of the 12th century was led by Sa’d Al-Din, Saladin's nephew, in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Karak Castle with the correct year: The castle was retaken by the Egyptian Sultan al- Salih Ayyub in ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Citadel of Amman with the correct year: The hill became the capital of the Kingdom of Ammon, sometime after ______ BCE.
  41. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Jordan Archaeological Museum was built on the hill in ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Jordan Gate Towers with the correct year: The land where the project currently stands was originally private property, sold to the Greater Amman Municipality in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Jabal Amman with the correct year: In ______, the Greater Amman Municipality recognized Jabal Amman as a 'heritage attraction point' and set forth plans to preserve and dev…
  44. Complete the sentence about Jabal al-Weibdeh with the correct year: In March ______, the Council for British Research in the Levant moved from Tla' Al Ali to Jabal al-Luweibdeh.
  45. Complete the sentence about Downtown Amman with the correct year: The inauguration of a Hejaz Railway station in ______ attracted immigration from neighboring Levantine cities, turning the area into a…
  46. Complete the sentence about Mukawir with the correct year: The Jordanian Department of Antiquities conducted a excavation of a Byzantine church in Mukawir in ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Mukawir with the correct year: A mosaic band discovered within the church has been dated by Piccirillo in ______ to 603 AD.
  48. Complete the sentence about Jordan Museum with the correct year: Built in ______, the museum is the largest museum in Jordan and hosts some of the country's most important archaeological findings.
  49. Complete the sentence about Jordan Museum with the correct year: The Jordan Archaeological Museum was established in ______, atop Amman's Citadel Hill, to host Jordan's most important archaeological f…
  50. Complete the sentence about Petra Treasury with the correct year: In ______, the city of Petra and Al-Khazneh were noted by Swiss explorer Burckhardt.
  51. Complete the sentence about Siq with the correct year: The arch collapsed in ______ following an earthquake, but its appearance is known from the lithographs of Matthew Boulby and David Roberts.
  52. Complete the sentence about Geography of Jordan with the correct year: The country's boundaries were established by various international agreements and with the exception of the border with Israel, n…
  53. Complete the sentence about Geography of Jordan with the correct year: In ______ Jordan and Saudi Arabia concluded an agreement that realigned and delimited the boundary.
  54. Complete the sentence about Wildlife of Jordan with the correct year: In ______, 11 Arabian oryx were brought to Jordan from the US.
  55. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: The Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild by the early 1970s, but was saved in zoos and private reserves, and was reintroduced into the w…
  56. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: The name "oryx" was introduced by Peter Simon Pallas in ______ for the common eland as Antilope oryx.
  57. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: In ______, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville subdivided the antelope group, adopted Oryx as a genus name, and changed the species name…
  58. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: In ______, Martin Lichtenstein confused matters by transferring the name Oryx leucoryx to the scimitar oryx, now Oryx dammah.
  59. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: The Zoological Society of London obtained the first living individual in Europe in ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: Oldfield Thomas renamed the scimitar oryx as Oryx algazal in ______ and gave the Arabian oryx its original name.
  61. Complete the sentence about Sand cat with the correct year: The first sand cat known to scientists was discovered in the Algerian Sahara and described in ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Sand cat with the correct year: In Central Asia, it was first recorded in the Karakum Desert in ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Sand cat with the correct year: The large gap between these two regions of its global range was partially closed in ______, when a sand cat skin was found in an oasis of th…
  64. Complete the sentence about Port of Aqaba with the correct year: The ACT is a joint venture between Aqaba Development Corporation and APM Terminals under a 25-year build-operate-transfer agreement tha…
  65. Complete the sentence about Allenby Bridge with the correct year: In ______, the Ottoman government of the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem built a bridge at this site.
  66. Complete the sentence about Allenby Bridge with the correct year: In ______, British general Edmund Allenby built a bridge over the remnant of the Ottoman predecessor.
  67. Complete the sentence about Allenby Bridge with the correct year: In ______, subsequent to the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, a new modern paved crossing was constructed adjacent to the older wooden one…
  68. Complete the sentence about Sheikh Hussein Bridge with the correct year: The Sheikh Hussein Bridge was opened in November ______, and is the northernmost entry/exit point between Israel and Jordan.
  69. Complete the sentence about Governorates of Jordan with the correct year: In ______, four new governorates were created as part of the administrative divisions system of the Ministry of Interior: Jera…
  70. Complete the sentence about Karak Governorate with the correct year: From the 15th century until ______, Karak was under Ottoman rule, and then later under the Emirate of Transjordan.
  71. Complete the sentence about Tafilah Governorate with the correct year: Lawrence, Jaafar Pasha, and Prince Zeid bin Hussein repulsed a counter-attack of ______ Turkish soldiers led by Hamid Fakhri Pash…
  72. Complete the sentence about Ma'an Governorate with the correct year: Ma'an was the capital of the Arab state declared by Emir Abdullah for a short period of time in ______ before moving the capital to…
  73. Complete the sentence about Jerash Governorate with the correct year: The Jerash Governorate was formed in ______ from a portion of Irbid Governorate.
  74. Complete the sentence about Jerash Governorate with the correct year: The elevation range of the province is 300 to ______ m above sea level with fresh water streams and the Zarqa River flowing throug…
  75. Which place completes this sentence about Madaba? In 1880, 90 Arab Christian families from Al ______ resettled the ruins of Madaba, led by two Italian priests from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
  76. Which place completes this sentence about Ma'an? By the end of the 13th-century Syria's new rulers, the Bahri Mamluks, designated Ma'an and its surroundings as one of four districts of the al-______ p…
  77. Which place completes this sentence about Tafilah? Tafilah was later annexed by the Nabatean kingdom, which had its capital at ______.
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Sahab, Jordan? Sahab had been part of ______'s city limits but became its own municipality in 1962.
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Wadi Musa? The Nabateans built channels that carried water from this spring to the city of ______.
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Wadi Musa? As of the 2004 census, ______ Department, which includes Wadi Musa and 18 other villages, had a population of 23,840 inhabitants.
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Dead Sea? In the Talmud, it is called 'Sea of ______' or 'Sea of Sodom'.
  82. Which place completes this sentence about Jordan River? Lynch's 1849 book Narrative of the United States' Expedition to the River Jordan and the ______ is available online.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Jordan River? The flow rate of the Jordan River once was 1.3 billion cubic metres per year; as of 2010, just 20 to 30 million cubic metres per year flow into…
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Zarqa River? Geologically, the ______ River is about 30 million years old.
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Zarqa River? When built, it was expected that the reservoir would supply water for municipal use in the ______ region.
  86. Which place completes this sentence about Jabal Umm ad Dami? Jabal Umm ad Dami, in historic ______, is the highest mountain in Jordan.
  87. Which place completes this sentence about Gulf of Aqaba? Movement on one of these faults caused the 1995 Gulf of ______ earthquake.
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Gulf of Aqaba? The Romans built the Via Traiana Nova, which joined the King's Highway at ______ and connected Africa to Asia and the Levant and Red Sea shippi…
  89. Which place completes this sentence about Gulf of Aqaba? During World War I, the Battle of ______ was the key battle that ended a 500-year Ottoman rule over the region of Syria.
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Arabah? Later the eastern Arabah became the domain of the Nabateans, the builders of the city of ______.
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Karak Castle? The Crusaders called it Crac des Moabites or "______ in Moab", as it is referred to in history books.
  92. Which place completes this sentence about Roman Theatre? Roman Theatre of ______ is a 6,000-seat, 2nd-century Roman theatre.
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Roman Theatre? The Roman Theatre is located in the eastern part of the Jordanian capital, ______.
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Citadel of Amman? The ______ Citadel is considered to be among the world's oldest continuously inhabited places.
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Al-Salt? In 2021, the city of ______ was inscribed at the UNESCO World Heritage list.
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Al-Salt? By the end of the 18th century, ______ was the sole permanent settlement in the Balqa region, a situation which persisted well into the 19th century.
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Siq? The entrance to the Siq contains a huge dam, reconstructed in 1963 and again in 1991, designed to bar the mouth of the Siq and reroute the waters of ____…
  98. Which place completes this sentence about Siq? The dam is a fairly true reconstruction of what the Nabataeans did to control ______ between the 1st century BC and the beginning of the 1st century AD.
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Geography of Jordan? A 380-kilometer-long rift valley runs from the Yarmouk River in the north to Al ______ in the south.
  100. Which place completes this sentence about Sheikh Hussein Bridge? To use the ______ Crossing, all passports are required to be valid for at least 6 months.

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