This city dates back to the Iron Age around the year 1200 BC and punish Moabites, Assyrians, Nabateans, Greeks and Romans, Byzantines.
The city had a long history with Saladin, who fought King Arnat The importance of Karak in then they were protecting Jerusalem because of its strategic role in preventing the meeting among the Arabs of the Levant and Egypt and Arabs as a monitoring station on the road to the pilgrims. The king Arnat fierce warrior adventurer Saladin faced three campaigns of Krk even managed in 1188 of occupation of the fortress and was Arnat holed out of fear but he died at the Battle of Hattin and took captive Saladin struck him with his sword and died.
And Karak flourished in the Ayyubid era whatever prosperity Vtjaddedt castle doors and Termmt walls and rebuilt villages and interested in planting trees and springs liquefaction.
Remained Karak prosperous and Psychological comfort despite differences that intensified between sultans Ayyubids and exposed the region to invade the Mongols and the occupied Zahir Baybars Karak Vaatny out and dig trenches new about the city and its castle, and lived Karak again quiet life that occupied the Ottomans in 1516. Due to the distance from the Ottoman central authority Tkhasamt tribes among themselves on command and control. Karak and lived during the period of Turkish rule control obnoxious.
Perhaps the best books in Karak in the words of Ibn Battuta (Mohammed bin Abdullah 1303 1377) in his book "a masterpiece principals in the oddity of the regions and wonders Scriptures":
"Then leave to Fort Karak. Which impressed forts and Amnaha and relentless. Called fort crow. And valley Spectrum by any of its isnaads has one door may carve entrance to in hard rock, and the entrance Dhlisah well. And this fort holed kings, and him turning in episodes has resorted King Nasser. because Crown King, a small age. And seized to measure slave Salar MP him. fully demonstrating King Nasser he wanted pilgrimage. concurred princes on it. proceed to Hajj. when he arrived to hitch Elath, resorted to the fort and established the days that meant princes Sham . and met him Mamelukes and had Crown King in that period Baybars Cchenkar a prince food and called King Muzaffar. who built khanqah Albebarsah the vicinity of the Khanqah happy happy built by Saladin ibn Ayyub. Vqsdh King Nasser Balasakr. Favre Baybars to the desert. followed him Alasakr He seized Thus, he came to the king Nasser ordered to kill him, killing. arrested on Salar and imprisonment in the den until he died of starvation. said he ate carrion from hunger. and stayed behind in the outside Karak four days, a position said to him Tuck. and Tghezwa to enter the wild and then Artgelna to Ma'an, He last Levant and down from the granite to the desert obstacle which say: inside and outside the missing child. trajectory after two days we went down a pilgrimage Husban Amara then the Bldh Valley, no water in it "
The Qalqashandi (Ahmed Bin Ali 1355-1410) in his book "Sobh TFB in writing construction" as follows:
"Karak know firstborn Shobak to approach her., A city updated construction. Was Dera Atdberh monks. Then multiplied Vkbroa build. And shelter them from يجاورهم of Christians. Faqamt them by markets, and rotate livelihood. And haute him Franks. Vadaaroa walls. Became a great city. Then Benoit where a fortress for strongholds and Ahsnha. remained Franks Mstolen it even opened Sultan Salahuddin Yusuf ibn Ayyub, by his brother just Abu Bakr. said in "definition": They had worked the boats and passed it to the Caspian Sea to the intent of the Hijaz Sharif, for things Sultha them themselves. ordered their Sultan Salahuddin And carried to Mona and Slaughtered out on Aqabah where Slaughtered hull them. continued the hands of Muslims from that day. and taken kings Islam Hrza, but their money treasure. were still kings Istkhalafon by their children and they consider their concerns., a country fertile, Boade bath and many orchards, fruit and favorite. said Albuladera in Fattouh Sham: The city of Koura in old Aerndl ".
It is located 26 kilometers west of Karak archaeological place called "door arm" inhabited by successive waves of peoples and found the water and fertile land and easy passage of the Palestinian territories.And this site dates back to the period between 2850-2250 BC. Found in the cemetery location provided a model strange to bury the dead as skeletons found in graves and skulls in other graves.
In an adjacent site back to the Early Bronze Age named Numeira surrounded by a wall of stone and found it stoned Numeira a remnant of Nabatiyeh buildings.
Place rises 726 meters above sea level, four kilometers to the north of Seal positive and just 64 kilometers south of Amman and against Mount Shehan surrounded this mountain valleys abysmal from the west and the north-east and surrounded population fences since the early Bronze Age and then chosen Moabites since the third century century BC to be the capital of their kingdom. Israelis and soon coming from Egypt that were defeated in this site Army Chihon and fell Theban in their grip. When he died Ahab king of Israel, King revolted "Micha" King of Moab and the expulsion of the invaders from this site.
We have not received the effects of this city and its culture only mentioned in ancient books and Micha obelisk. The obelisk dating Micha goes back to the year 835 BC. And a length of 92 centimeters width not exceeding 57 centimeters. Spread the news to find this obelisk and heard the French embassy in Jerusalem in 1867 went supplement cultural Charles Claire moon Kano to Theban trying to purchase and acquisition and agreed with the villagers on the price after that picked up her photographs and went to get them the amount of Jerusalem, but the villagers disenchanted that the stone Includes gold Vohalo it on fire and then poured water and quickly broken French and when he returned from Jerusalem found what he found he gathered the remnants of the obelisk and compiled according to the photographs taken by and sent to the Louvre in France, where he is still there now. This world is the first of unlocking this obelisk and translated.
Perhaps most important, supplied this obelisk is that Theban was the capital of Micha, who was born and keenness on the safety and welfare of his people and free his country from the Israeli invaders and expanded the boundaries of his kingdom and cities walled fortress and rebuilt roads, cities and digging ponds and wells.
It is older areas near the Theban and of interest to archaeologists Araar site located five kilometers and a half from the Theban and the town of Umm al-Rasas, which lies between the Theban Desert Road and return implications of Anbat, Romans and Byzantines.
And between the city of Karak and Mount Shihan and to the southeast rich civilization flourished and left behind residues located defy time and highlights the genius of the human mind, which has sought looking for a site of residence to protect itself from greedy it.