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  1. Capital and chief industrial centre of
  2. Jordan; population (1980) 1,232,600. It is a
  3. major communications centre, linking historic
  4. trade routes across the Middle East. Amman is
  5. built on the site of the Old Testament
  6. Rabbath-Ammon (Philadelphia), capital of the
  7. Ammonites.
  8.