Arab geographers knew this city as the center of the Balqa region, but Victorian British visitors thought it had been depopulated for centuries before a wave of Circassian refugees resettled it from the 1870s onward.
This city was where the ancient plaster-and-reed statues of Ain Ghazal were excavated. Rainbow Street and Souk Jara are important cultural centers in its downtown. Arab geographers knew this city as the center of the Balqa region, but Victorian British visitors thought it had been depopulated for centuries before a wave of Circassian refugees resettled it from the 1870s onward. The Romans built a Temple of Hercules on the citadel of this city, which was known in classical times as (*) Philadelphia. The nearby town of al-Salt was overshadowed by this city, which became an administrative capital in 1921 under  ►  Abdullah I and is today the center of the Hashemite monarchy. For 10 points, name this city, the capital of Jordan.
This city was where the ancient plaster-and-reed statues of Ain Ghazal were excavated.
Amman