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'''Al-Karak''' ({{lang-ar|الكرك}}), in English sources often simply '''Karak''', is a city in [[Jordan]] known for its medieval castle, the [[Kerak Castle]]. The castle is one of the three largest castles in the region, the other two being in [[Syria]]. Al-Karak is the capital city of the [[Karak Governorate]].
Al-Karak lies {{convert|140|km}} to the south of [[Amman]] on the ancient [[King's Highway (ancient)|King's Highway]]. It is situated on a hilltop about {{convert|1000|m}} above sea level and is surrounded on three sides by a valley. Al-Karak has a view of the [[Dead Sea]]. A city of about 32,216 people (2005<ref name="citypopulation.de">{{Cite web|url=https://www.citypopulation.de/Jordan-Cities.html|title=Jordan: Governorates, Major Cities & Urban Localities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information}}</ref>) has been built up around the castle and it has buildings from the 19th-century [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] period. The town is built on a triangular plateau, with the castle at its narrow southern tip.
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The [[Karak revolt]] erupted on 4 December 1910<ref name=ssl>{{cite book|last=Fischbach|first=Michael R.|title=State, Society, and Land in Jordan|year=2000|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9004119124|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_WAgDMWsyb8C}}</ref> as the [[Governor of Damascus|governor]] of [[Damascus Vilayet|Damascus]] attempted to apply the same measures of conscription, taxation, and disarmament to the inhabitants of Al-Karak that previously provoked the [[Hauran Druze Rebellion]].<ref name=wisc>{{cite book|last1=Heydemann|first1=Steven|author2=Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East|title=War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East|year=2000|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520224223|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tczy5YtB4PEC}}</ref> The uprising ended with an indiscriminate massacre perpetrated by the governor's troops.<ref name=Salibi>{{cite book|last=Salibi|first=Kamal S.|title=The Modern History of Jordan|page=40|publisher=IB.Tauris|year=1998|isbn=9781860643316|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zdi2sCuIh8C&pg=PA40|access-date=10 June 2016}}</ref>
During the [[Arab Revolt]] (1916–1918), the Turkish Army abandoned al-Karak after Sherif Abdullah ibn Hamza led a 70 horsemen attack on Mezraa. This Ottoman naval base was rendered useless, after the destruction of the flotilla used to transport grain across the Dead Sea, on 28
===British Mandate, Emirate of Transjordan===
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