Ahamant (Amman Citadel)

Also known as Ahemant, Hamant, Philadelphia

The ancient acropolis of Rabbath-Ammon — classical Philadelphia — briefly served in the twelfth century as the seat of the small lordship of Ahamant, a sub-fief of Oultrejordain. The Franks are documented as holding the site but apparently reused the Byzantine and Umayyad fortifications on the Citadel Hill rather than building anew; archaeologists have yet to isolate a clearly Crusader-period structure. Ahamant slipped back into Muslim control before Hattin, and the name survives only in the lordship lists of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The hilltop today is an Ammanian archaeological park with Roman, Byzantine and Umayyad monuments.

Coordinates: 31.9547°, 35.9344°

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