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Petra (lit. Skirt) was round the capital of the Nabatäer, a trunk of before-Roman Arab, those the region around the sixth century v. Chr. coined/shaped. Because of the crossing of old trade routes been, got over the city duty and taxes of dealers collected. Despite several attempts to conquer their capital the Nabatäer remained practically independent up to the defeat by Antonius and Kleopatra and the reunification of the Roman realm by Octavian in the year 31 v.Chr. in 106 to conquered finally mark the Romans under Trajan Petra to at the beginning of the fall of the city...
The city remained unknown, the western world since hundreds of years, until a Swiss researcher, JL Burckhardt, from whose existence of the local Beduinen in the year 1812 belongs.
The Nabatäer carved, their capital into the ravines and mountains from sandstone of the Wadi Araba in Jordan. The entrance to the city becomes by The Alley (Al-Siq), a winding distance at the lower edge of the Canyon. The Treasury (Al Khazneh) is most famous, the fascinating front became featured in many films. Carved in the pink sandstone, is high and approx. 30x30 m broad the structure 40 m.
Its architecture is surely strongly of the Romans, which points to it, was it around the first century n. Chr. built affects. The city also different fascinating objects of interest and structures, like urn grave and the king graves, the Kolonnade Street, the temples of Dushara and the aluminum USA, and the height of the victim.
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