Al Qurayyat, Jordan - Misplaced Pages

Place in Madaba Governorate, Jordan

Al Qurayyat
Al QurayyatLocation in Jordan
Coordinates: 31°32′26″N 35°41′10″E / 31.54056°N 35.68611°E / 31.54056; 35.68611
Country	Jordan
Governorate	Madaba Governorate
Time zone	UTC + 2

Al Qurayyat (Arabic: القريات) is a town in the Madaba Governorate of western Jordan.

History

Al Qurayyat is identified with Cariatha, a place mentioned in Eusebius' Onomasticon (early 4th century CE) as a Christian village near Madaba.

Maplandia world gazetteer
Avi-Yonah, Michael (1976). "Gazetteer of Roman Palestine". Qedem. 5: 46. ISSN 0333-5844. JSTOR 43587090.

v t e Madaba Governorate of Jordan
Capital: Madaba
Towns and villages:	Al 'Arid Al-ʽAruḍah Al Judayyidah Al Mathluthah Al Qurayyat Al Quwayjiyah An Naqubah 'Ara'ir Ash Shuqayq Ath Thughrah 'Atruz Buqaʽi al-Qababiyah Dhiban Dulaylat al Hama'idah Dulaylat al Mutayrat Halaq ash Shuqayq Khirbat as Sahilah Khirbet al-Mukhayyat Kufayr Abu Sarbut Kufayr al Wakhyan Kufayrat Abu Khinan Murayjimat Ibn Hamid

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