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32°11′20″N 35°36′11″E / 32.18889°N 35.60306°E / 32.18889; 35.60306

Deir Alla
مدينة دير علا
City
Mosque of Abu Ubaidah Amer ibn al-Jarrah in Deir Alla
Mosque of Abu Ubaidah Amer ibn al-Jarrah in Deir Alla
Flag of Deir Alla
Official seal of Deir Alla
Deir Alla is located in Jordan
Deir Alla
Deir Alla
Location in Jordan
Coordinates: 32°11′20″N 35°36′11″E / 32.18889°N 35.60306°E / 32.18889; 35.60306
Grid position208/178
CountryJordan
ProvinceBalqa Governorate
Municipality established1967
Government
 • MayorKhalifa Solomen Diyat
Elevation
−1,030 ft (−314 m)
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • City7,321
 • Metro
73,477
Time zoneUTC+2 (GMT)
 • Summer (DST)+3
Area code+(962)5
Websitehttp://deirallacity.gov.jo/

Deir Alla (Arabic: دير علا) is the site of an ancient Near Eastern town in Balqa Governorate, Jordan. The Deir Alla Inscription, datable to ca. 840–760 BCE, was found here.

Tomb of the Muslim commander Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah

On 20 August 2010, it recorded a temperature of 51.1 °C, the new official highest temperature in the history of Jordan.[2]

  1. ^ "The General Census - 2015" (PDF). Department of Population Statistics.
  2. ^ "..:: طقس الأردن - كن أول من يعلم ::". Archived from the original on 2011-08-23. Retrieved 2011-08-01.

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Pethor

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El Shaddai

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Northwest Semitic languages

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"South-Central" group which together with Aramaic forms Central Semitic. The Deir Alla Inscription and Samalian have been identified as language varieties falling...

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Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions

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struggled to fit into either category, such as the Stele of Zakkur and the Deir Alla Inscription. The Northwest Semitic languages are a language group that...

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Canaanite languages

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possibly also a Northwest Semitic language, but likely not Canaanitic. The Deir Alla Inscription, written in a dialect with Aramaic and South Canaanitic characteristics...

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Red letter edition

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explains that "Some interpreters end the quotation after verse 15." The Deir Alla Inscription, the oldest alphabetic West Semitic epigraph, uses red for...

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Chemosh

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large sections still lying course-on-course. Debris at six sites (Hazor, Deir 'Alla, Gezer, Lachish, Tell Judeideh, and 'En Haseva) is tightly confined stratigraphically...

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Succoth

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Late Bronze Age collapse

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Shasu threatened the "Way of Horus" north from Gaza. Evidence shows that Deir Alla (Succoth) was destroyed, likely by an earthquake, after the reign of Queen...

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Philistines

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signs resemble the Cypro-Minoan script. Three inscribed clay tablets from Deir Alla (SUCCOTH) also have been attributed to the Philistines. These signs resemble...

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Tell Hammeh

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several of the larger tells in this part of the Jordan Valley (e.g. Tell Deir 'Alla, Tell al-Sa'idiyeh) as well as to the natural resources desirable in metal...

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Moab

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Divine Council

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West Semitic languages

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Revadim Asherah

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List of modern names for biblical place names

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List of inscriptions in biblical archaeology

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