Um El-Jimal - Black Gem of the Desert
One Of the Decapolis Cities, on the edge of the stark, black basalt region of northeast of Jordan, Um El Jimal is one of the area ’s most impressive and eerie monuments of ancient civilizations. The town is filled with the remains of many black basalt stone houses, churches, a Roman barracks and a fort complex. Also it called by “Black Gem of the Desert .
Umm el-Jimal (Arabic: ام الجمال, "Mother of Camels"), also known as Umm al-Jimal or Umm idj-Djimal, is a village in Northern Jordan approximately 17 kilometers east of Mafraq. It is primarily notable for the substantial ruins of a Byzantine and early Islamic town which are clearly visible above the ground, as well as an older Roman village (locally referred to as al-Herri) located to the southwest of the Byzantine ruins.
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