🏛️ As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban Hospitality

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As-Salt, also known as Salt, is an ancient trading city and administrative centre in west-central Jordan. It is on the old main highway leading from Amman to Jerusalem. Situated in the Balqa highland, about 790–1,100 metres above sea level, the city is built in the crook of three hills, close to the Jordan Valley. One of the three hills, Jabal al-Qal'a, is the site of a 13th-century ruined fortress. It is the capital of Balqa Governorate of Jordan.

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As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban Hospitality is a cultural World Heritage site in Jordan, in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban Hospitality was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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