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Capital and chief industrial centre of
Jordan; population (1980) 1,232,600. It is a
major communications centre, linking historic
trade routes across the Middle East. Amman is
built on the site of the Old Testament
Rabbath-Ammon (Philadelphia), capital of the
Ammonites.