Hisham's Palace
Hisham's Palace is an archaeological site located 5 km north of Jericho on the West Bank. The palace was built in CE 743 by Al-Walid ibn Yazid and owed its name to his uncle, the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, who ruled an empire stretching from India to the Pyrenees.
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History of the Middle East | Muslim history | Islamic architecture