Dumat Al-Jandal

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Dumat al-Jundal (Arabic: دومة الجندل), is a ruined ancient city located in North Western Saudi Arabia in Al Jawf province, the name Dumat al-Jandal means literally "Dumah of the Stone", since this was the territory of Dumah one of the twelve sons of Ishmael. This city has a history dates back to the 10th century BC and we can find it in Assyrian records dating from 845 BC in which it was called 'Adumatu' described as the capital an Arab kingdom, and we now know the names of five poweful Queens that ruled this city, one Queen, Te'elhunu, is mentioned as the high priestess of Ishtar (or Atarsamain as she was known locally), the Sumerian goddess of fertility, love and war. Dumat al-Jundal was the site of an important temple of Ishtar. In 106 CE Dumat incorporated into the Roman Empire under the Emperor Trajan. In the 269 CE was mentioned by Zenobia the Queen of Palmyra as city with an immune fortress that after her forces captured the city the fortress withstood the attack in her revolt on the occupying Romans, later on in the 5th century CE this city became was the capital of the kingdom of Kindah, In 630 CE Khalid ibn al-Walid captures Dumat Al-Jandal and it became a part of the newly forming Islamic world.

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