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Madaba
dates
from
the
Middle
Bronze
Age.
The
town
of
Madaba
was
once
a
Moabite
border
city,
mentioned
in
the
Bible
in
Numbers
21:30
and
Joshua
13:9.
Control
over
the
city
changed
back
and
forth
between
Israel
and
Moab,
as
mentioned
in
the
Mesha
Stele.
During
its
rule
by
the
Roman
and
Byzantine
empires
from
the
2nd
to
the
7th
centuries,
the
city
formed
part
of
the
Provincia
Arabia
set
up
by
the
Roman
Emperor
Trajan
to
replace
the
Nabataean
kingdom
of
Petra.
The
first
evidence
for
a
Christian
community
in
the
city,
with
its
own
bishop,
is
found
in
the
Acts
of
the
Council
of
Chalcedon
in
451,
where
Constantine,
Metropolitan
Archbishop
of
Bostra
(the
provincial
capital)
signed
on
behalf
of
Gaiano,
Bishop
of
the
Medabeni.
During
the
rule
of
the
Islamic
Umayyad
Caliphate,
it
was
part
of
the
southern
district
of
Jund
Filastin
within
the
Bilad
al-Sham
province.
The
resettlement
of
the
city
ruins
by
90
Arab
Christian
convert
families
from
Al
Karak,
in
the
south,
led
by
two
Italian
priests
from
the
Latin
Patriarchate
of
Jerusalem
in
1880.
This
period
saw
the
start
of
archaeological
research.
This
in
turn
substantially
supplemented
the
scant
documentation
available.The
Catholic
Church's
list
of
titular
sees
uses
the
spelling
Medaba,
traditional
in
reference
to
the
ancient
bishopric
centred
on
this
city,
while
at
the
same
time
referring
to
the
modern
city
as
Madaba.
