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Aqaba: Jordans historiske havneby

Aqaba er Jordans sydligste by og landets eneste havn. For mange europæere er byen uom­tvisteligt forbundet med T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) og arabernes store væbnede opstand mod tyrkisk-osmannisk overherredømme i starten af 1900-tallet. I 1917 foretager den arabiske oprørshær en spektakulær fremryking gennem Nefud-ørkenen, der fører den ind bag tyrkernes kanoner, og Aqaba falder. Herved kappes de osmanniske forsyningslinjer til den vigtige Hijaz-region i Vestarabien, hvor de hellige byer Mekka og Medina ligger. 

Hvad færre ved er, at Aqaba ikke altid har været den trøstesløse udørk, som opdagelsesrejsende som Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1816) og Sir Richard Francis Burton ........

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