The central square of Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia, is Sükhbaatar Square, named after the equestrian statue of Damdin Sükhbaatar, located directly in front of the Saaral Ordon (Government Palace). Small settlements continued in Jerash during the Ayyubid, Mameluk and Ottoman periods. During the period of the Crusades, some of the monuments were converted to fortresses. The Persian invasion in 614 caused the rapid decline of Jerash, and in 749 a major earthquake destroyed much of the city. The Romans, who conquest the city in 63 BC, ensured security and peace in this area, which enabled its people to devote their efforts to economic development and encouraged civic building activity. Recent excavations show that Jerash was already inhabited during the Bronze Age (3200 BC - 1200 BC). It was a city of the Decapolis (Ten Cities), a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Jordan, Israel and Syria. Ancient inscriptions establish the foundation of the city as being by Alexander the Great or his general Perdiccas. Situated in the north of Jordan, 48km north of the capital Amman towards Syria, Jerash is the site of the ruins of the Greco-Roman city of Gerasa, also referred to as Antioch on the Golden River.
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