{"slug": "jordan-river", "label": "Jordan River", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_River", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40059", "qid": "Q40059", "description": "river in West Asia which flows to the Dead Sea", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [26, 1218], "span_label": ["26 CE", "1218 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "january", "label": "January", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jordan", "label": "Jordan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rashidun-army", "label": "Rashidun army", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "khalid-ibn-al-walid", "label": "Khalid Ibn Al-Walid", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jerusalem", "label": "Jerusalem", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "november", "label": "November", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "damascus", "label": "Damascus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palestine-region", "label": "Palestine (region)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-jerusalem", "label": "Kingdom of Jerusalem", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mosul", "label": "Mosul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nablus", "label": "Nablus", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 26, "year_label": "26 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Jesus is baptized in the Jordan River by John the Baptist and begins his public ministry, according to some scholars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369984933#Palestine", "title": "20s", "revid": 1369984933, "section": "Events › 26 AD › Palestine"}}, {"year": 68, "year_label": "68 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Trajan moves to Scythopolis and crosses the Jordan River with Legio X Fretensis. He lays siege to Jericho and destroys the monastery of Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls are originated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330183058#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 68", "revid": 1330183058, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 629, "year_label": "629 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September", "text": "September – Battle of Mu'tah: The Muslims fail to take the lands east of the Jordan River, and are pushed back near Mu'tah by the Ghassanids.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340803532#Arabia", "title": "629", "revid": 1340803532, "section": "Events › By place › Arabia"}}, {"year": 635, "year_label": "635 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January", "text": "January – Battle of Fahl: The Rashidun army, (30,000 men) under Khalid ibn al-Walid (known as the \"Drawn Sword of God\"), defeats the Byzantine forces led by Theodore Trithyrius, at Pella in the Jordan Valley (Jordan).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364906250#Arabia", "title": "635", "revid": 1364906250, "section": "Events › By place › Arabia"}}, {"year": 1113, "year_label": "1113 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 28", "text": "June 28 – Battle of Al-Sannabra: The Crusaders led by Baldwin I are defeated (due to a feigned flight) by a Seljuk army under Mawdud ibn Altuntash, the Turkic governor (atabeg) of Mosul, at the Jordan River south of the Sea of Galilee. Mawdud sends raiding columns to ravage the countryside and sacks the town of Nablus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267067505#Levant", "title": "1113", "revid": 1267067505, "section": "Events › By place › Levant"}}, {"year": 1121, "year_label": "1121 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Seljuk forces under Toghtekin make extensive raids into Galilee. King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, in reprisal, crosses the Jordan River with a Crusader army and ravages the countryside. He occupies and destroys a fortress that Toghtekin has built at Jerash.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362154597#Levant", "title": "1121", "revid": 1362154597, "section": "Events › By place › Levant"}}, {"year": 1187, "year_label": "1187 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 26", "text": "June 26 – Saladin regroups his Muslim forces and marches towards the Jordan River. His army numbers around 30,000 men and is divided into three columns. The following day Saladin encamps on the Golan Heights, in a marshy area near Lake Tiberias. Raiding parties are sent across the Jordan to ravage Christian territory between Nazareth, Tiberias, and Mount Tabor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369187098#Levant", "title": "1187", "revid": 1369187098, "section": "Events › By place › Levant"}}, {"year": 1217, "year_label": "1217 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November", "text": "November – The Crusader army (some 15,000 men) under Andrew II sets out from Acre, and marches up the Plain of Esdraelon. Sultan Al-Adil I, on hearing that the crusaders are assembling, sends some Muslim troops to Palestine, to halt their advance. The crusaders move towards Beisan, while Al-Adil waits at Ajloun Castle, ready to intercept any attack on Damascus. He sends his son, Al-Mu'azzam, to cover Jerusalem. On November 10, Andrew's well-mounted army defeats Al-Adil at Bethsaida, on the Jordan River. Beisan is occupied and sacked; the Muslims retreat to their fortresses and towns.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367488093#Fifth_Crusade", "title": "1217", "revid": 1367488093, "section": "Events › Fifth Crusade"}}, {"year": 1218, "year_label": "1218 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Al-Kamil decides to offer the Crusaders a deal, Jerusalem in exchange for their departure from Egypt. John I favored accepting this offer but Pelagius refuses, unless it also includes Kerak Castle and other former castles of Jerusalem, to the east of the Jordan River. Al-Kamil refuses these strategically important sites, and Pelagius rejects the offer. This angers the Crusaders – who consider Jerusalem their important goal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347207200#Fifth_Crusade", "title": "1218", "revid": 1347207200, "section": "Events › By place › Fifth Crusade"}}]}