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City in Mafraq Governorate, Jordan
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Mafraq is in the Eastern Desert of Jordan.
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Ruins of a Nabataean and Byzantine settlement from the 1st century BC, and also a later Roman settlement to the northwest.
Kind of sleepy, but it has a pool and buffet/restaurant and clean tiles.
Mafraq is just 70 km from Amman on a good 4-lane highway. The Hejaz Railway became defunct by the time of the Six-Day War in 1967, and while there is a train station in town, there is no service.
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