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Qasr Al-Kharanah

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Jan 23, 2025 10:59 AM — History
Early Islamic structure in Eastern Jordan, likely constructed before the eighth century CE. Though its outward appearance suggests a castle, it does not seem to have had any military function, and the structure's original purpose is unknown.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/318745558

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Gabriel Mckee, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Qasr Al-Kharanah: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/318745558> [accessed: 03 March 2025] 

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