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Heshbon
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🏛️ Ancient ruins

Heshbon

Ancient city · Jordan

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
31.819, 35.799
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Why it was abandoned

🏛️ Ancient ruins

Detected automatically from the text: Есевон — древний город, упоминаемый в Библии, ныне превращённый в развалины.

History

Heshbon were at least two different ancient towns located east of the Jordan River in what is now the Kingdom of Jordan, historically within the territories of ancient Ammon.

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