Editing Ammon (section)

{{Short description|Ancient Semitic kingdom in the Levant}}
{{distinguish|Amman}}
{{Other uses}}
{{Infobox Former Country
| native_name            = 𐤏𐤌𐤍
| conventional_long_name = Kingdom of Ammon
| common_name            = Ammon
| era                    = [[Iron Age]]
| status                 = [[Monarchy|Kingdom]]
| year_start             = [[11th century BC]]
| event_start            = Kingdom of Ammon flourishes
| date_start             = 
| year_end               = 332 BC
| event_end              = Invasion by [[Alexander the Great]]
| date_end               = 
| life_span              = {{circa|lk=no|11th century BC}}{{snd}}332 BC
| event1                 = [[Battle of Qarqar]] against the [[Assyria]]ns
| date_event1            = 853 BC
| event_pre              = 
| date_pre               = 
| event_post             = Rabbat Ammon renamed to Philadelphia
| date_post              = 248–282 BC
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| flag                   = 
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| image_coat             = 
| symbol_type            = 
| symbol_type_article    = 
| image_map              = Kingdoms around Israel 830 map.svg
| image_map_caption      = Ammon and its neighbors, around 830 BC{{citation needed|date=June 2012}}
| p1                     = Arameans
| flag_p1                = 
| s1                     = 
| s2                     = [[Macedonian Empire]]
| flag_s2                = Vergiasun.svg
| capital                = [[Rabbath Ammon]] (Amman)<sup>1</sup>
| common_languages       = [[Ammonite language|Ammonite]], [[Moabite language|Moabite]]
| religion               = [[Canaanite religion]]
| currency               = 
| leader1                = Getal
| leader2                = [[Sanipu]]
| leader3                = Amminadab I
| year_leader1           = ~ 1100 BC
| year_leader2           = 740–720 BC
| year_leader3           = 680–640 BC
| title_leader           = 
| legislature            = 
| stat_year1             = 
| stat_area1             = 
| stat_pop1              = 
| today                  = [[Jordan]]
}}
[[File:Rujm Al-Malfouf.jpg|thumb|right|An Ammonite watch tower at [[Rujm Al-Malfouf]] in [[Amman]]]]
[[File:Qasralabdfront.jpg|thumb|right|[[Qasr al Abd|Qasr Al Abd]] was built by the governor of Ammon in 200 BC]]
{{History of Jordan}}
'''Ammon''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|æ|m|ən}}; [[Ammonite language|Ammonite]]: 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''ʻAmān''; {{langx|he|עַמּוֹן}} ''{{Lang|he-latn|ʻAmmōn}}''; {{langx|ar|عمّون|ʻAmmūn}}) was an ancient [[Semitic languages|Semitic-speaking]] kingdom occupying the east of the [[Jordan River]], between the torrent valleys of [[Wadi Mujib|Arnon]] and [[Jabbok]], in present-day [[Jordan]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Marilyn J. Lundberg|title=Ancient Texts Relating to the Bible: Amman Citadel|url=http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/ancient_texts/Citadel.shtml|access-date=2011-01-11|publisher=[[University of Southern California]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126125659/http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/ancient_texts/Citadel.shtml|archive-date=2010-11-26|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name="LaBiancaYounker">{{cite book |title=The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land |chapter=The Kingdoms of Ammon, Moab and Edom: The Archaeology of Society in Late Bronze/Iron Age Transjordan (ca. 1400–500 BCE)|editor-last=Levy |editor-first=Tom|last1=LaBianca|first1=Øystein S.|last2=Younker|first2=Randall W.|publisher=A&C Black |year=1995 |page=399 |isbn=9780718513887 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TqRIlVBRv34C&q=Ammon&pg=PA399}}</ref> The chief city of the country was ''Rabbah'' or ''Rabbat Ammon'', site of the modern city of [[Amman]], Jordan's capital. [[Milcom]] and [[Moloch|Molech]] are named in the [[Hebrew Bible]] as the gods of Ammon. The people of this kingdom are called '''Children of Ammon''' or '''Ammonites'''.