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Tafilah travel guide, guidebook and phrasebooks, download .pdf chapters on Lonely Planet.
Tafilah is a small city with a population of 39,000 people in southern Jordan, located 180 kilometers (112 mi) southwest of Amman. It is the capital city of Tafilah Governorate. It is well-known for having green gardens which contain olive and fig trees, and grape-vines. The city of Tafilah was first built by the Edomites and was called Tophel. There are more than 360 natural springs in the at-Tafilah area, including the natural reservoir of Dana and hot natural springs at Afra and Borbeata. There are two phosphate and cement mines in at-Tafilah which are one of the country's main income sources. Tafilah was enhabited by the Edomites, and was named Tophel. The capital of Edom was at Busairah close to Tafilah. The Edomites often allied with their neighbors in Moab. Tafilah was then annexed to the Nabatean kingdom who had their capital in Petra, following the Roman invasion, it was ruled by the Ghassanids, under Rome's authority. Tafilah then came under Muslim rule, but was for a brief period of time, under the Crusader rule ... more on Wikipedia.The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
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