Al-Karak, Jordan

Jordan

Al-Karak, Jordan carries 50 connections across 12 topics with 4351 other places, with history accounting for the bulk of its ties. The city sits at the intersection of Crusader, Mamluk, and Ottoman histories: exiled princes of the Qalawun dynasty were sent to its former Crusader castle, and in 1893 Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II made it the seat of a new sub-province. Its strongest shared ties run to Egypt, Syria, and Damascus. Al-Karak was also the birthplace of Ibn al-Quff, a 13th-century Arab surgeon who wrote the earliest medieval Arabic treatise intended solely for surgeons.