Madaba

Madaba is the capital city of Madaba Governorate in imperative Jordan, with a population of approximately 60,000. It is quality regarded for its Byzantine and Umayyad mosaics, specially a massive Byzantine-era mosaic map of the Holy Land. Madaba is positioned 30 kilometres south-west of the capital Amman. Madaba dates from the Middle Bronze Age. The city of Madaba became once a Moabite border metropolis, mentioned inside the Bible in Numbers 21:30 and Joshua 13:nine.

During its rule via the Roman and Byzantine empires from the 2nd to the 7th centuries, the town fashioned part of the Provincia Arabia installation by using the Roman Emperor Trajan to replace the Nabataean kingdom of Petra. The first evidence for a Christian community within the town, with its personal bishop, is found inside the Acts of the Council of Chalcedon in 451, wherein Constantine, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bostra signed on behalf of Gaiano, "Bishop of the Medabeni." During the rule of the Islamic Umayyad Caliphate, it became part of the southern district of Jund Filastin in the Bilad al-Sham province.