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Karak is a fast-growing city with just over 50,000 people. It is the second-largest city in Kohat Division and is the only urbanized area and namesake of Karak District. Karak's population nearly doubled between 1998 and 2017. [1] The dominant language in the city is Pashto, which nearly everybody speaks. The city was first labeled an urban ...
Al-Karak has been inhabited since at least the Iron Age, and was an important city for the Moabites.In the Bible it is called Kir-haresh, Kir-hareseth or Kir of Moab, and is identified as having been subject to the Neo-Assyrian Empire; in the Books of Kings (2 Kings 16:9) and Book of Amos (Amos 1:5, 9:7), it is mentioned as the place where the Arameans went before they settled in the regions ...
Kerak Castle (Arabic: قلعة الكرك, romanized: Qal'at al-Karak) is a large medieval castle located in al-Karak, Jordan. It is one of the largest castles in the Levant. Construction began in the 1140s, under Pagan and Fulk, King of Jerusalem. The Crusaders called it Crac des Moabites [1] or "Karak in Moab", as it is referred to in history ...
Karak District (Pashto: کرک ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع کرک pronounce ⓘ) is a district in Kohat Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.It is situated to the south of Kohat District and on the north side of Bannu and Lakki Marwat districts on the main Indus Highway between Peshawar and Karachi – it is 131 km from the provincial capital Peshawar.
By the 5th century BC, the city name had been adapted to the common language of the time, Aramaic, becoming Karak in Moab, and later the Roman and Byzantine periods, Charachmoba (H. E. Mayer pp. 119-120). [3] The Arabic name until today is al-Karak. [4]
Al-Karak or Kerak, city in Jordan, named after Kerak Castle Karak Governorate, Jordan; al-Karak, Syria, city in Syria's Daraa Governorate; Karak Nuh, village in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon; Karak, Iran (disambiguation) Karak, Pahang, town in Malaysia; Karak Expressway, highway in Malaysia; Karak, Pakistan, city in Pakistan
Kohat is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's fourth-largest city and is a fast-growing city whose population grew at a rate of more than 3% every year between 1998 and 2017. [16] Karak, Kohat Division's third-largest city, is the largest city and namesake of Karak District. Having a population just over 50,000, it is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's 24th largest city. [17]
Karak (Arabic: الكرك) is one of the governorates of Jordan, located south-west of Amman, Jordan's capital. Its capital is Al-Karak . It's bordered by Madaba and the Capital governorates to the north, Ma'an Governorate to the east, Tafilah Governorate to the south, and the Dead Sea to the west.