madaba
Madaba
Location:
In Jordan, 30 Km South of the capital Amman On the Kings Highway
Age:
Back to the Bronze Age.
Historical Fact About Madaba:
1. Roman And Byzantine empires ruled Madaba from 2nd to 7th centuries, During This Time the city formed part of the Rome's Arabian Province that built by the Roman emperor Trajan to replace the Nabatean kingdom of Petra.
2. The Region around Madaba Has been inhabited for around 4500 years.
3. Chronology of Madaba
- Fourth millennium B.C.
In the early Bronze Age (3300 - 2000 B.C.).
- 9th - 7th century B.C.
As part of the kingdom of Moab.
- 2nd / 1st century B.C.
The Ammonites had conquered Madaba in 165 B.C. but lost it again to the Hasmonean Hyrcanus I around 110 B.C.
30 B.C. Herod, vassal king of the Roman Empire, occupied Madaba in the war against the Nabataeans.
- 2nd / 3rd century A.D.
The Roman Emperor Trajan (ruled 98 - 117 A.D.).
- 4th century - Christianity
After the Constantinian shift and the Edict of Milan of 313, Christianity spread rapidly in the Roman Empire and became the state religion in 380.
451 First evidence for a Christian community with its own bishop in Madaba.
- 6th - 8th century A.D.
Emperor Justinian I (527 - 565).
Around 530, beginning of the "Golden Age" of mosaic art in Jordan.
614 - 628 Madaba under the rule of the Sassanids.
636 The victory of the Muslim army in the Battle of Yarmuk marked the end of the Byzantine.
- 661 - 750 Umayyads.
746 Madaba was largely destroyed by an earthquake
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