Jabal Joufeh

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Al-Joufa Mountain is an area in Jordan's capital Amman, south of the Roman amphitheater, and one of the seven mountains that comprise the city. In 1962 Dhaifallah Al-Hamoud, then Secretary of Amman, named it Algeria Mountain to honor the Algerian Revolution. Despite its proximity to the Roman amphitheater no ancient monuments have been found there to indicate its history, as is the case with the mountain opposite it, Al-Qalaa; Al-Joufa overlooks the royal palaces of Raghadan and Basman from its northern slope. The first Jordanian cabinet building was located at the foot of Al-Joufa Mountain, opposite the Amman Municipality Public Library building, but it was removed. Al-Joufa's main landmarks include the first triangle – an intersection of several streets – near Prince Hassan Secondary School, the middle triangle that represents Al-Joufa's commercial heart, and the last triangle that leads to Um Tineh, the former Druze neighborhood, and connects the last triangle between Al-Taj Mountain and Al-Ashrafieh Mountain.

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