- Habaka
Habaka ( _ar. حبكا) is a small hill town in northern
Jordan , located 75 km north of the capitalAmman (in Arabic عمان), and about 5 km south ofIrbid (Arabic: إربد). The region has a very fertile soil along with suitable climate allows the growing of wide variety of high quality crops. The main products are olives and grapes. There is a substantial area of pine forests on the hills that are extending fromAjloun .Habaka has a population of 1800. The populations of the town are from ashirat (in Arabic عشيرة it means clan, lineage (hamula), or tribe)Alomari ( _ar. العمري) and Hamasha ( _ar. حماشا).Alomari clan claims to descend fromUmar ibn al-Khattab (in Arabic عمر بن الخطاب) the secondCaliph . [ [http://www.shmmr.net/vb/showthread.php?t=35949/ SHMMR.net] ]History
Recent discoveries in the area of
Tell Juhfiyeh (in Arabic تل جحفية) -which is shared between Habaka andJuhfiyeh (in Arabic جحفيه)- goes back to the Iron Age. [ [http://www.irbidnet.com/pub_system/viewpost.php?postid=82&session=b2539809f75bbe45534908f68b40a2b4/ Irbid.net] ] One of the known Islamic scholars called ‘Ali bin ziadah bin abd alrhman alhabaki alshafie’ (in Arabic علي بن زيادة بن عبدالرحمن الحبكي الشافعي) was from Habaka and passed away in 1364. [ [http://www.irbidnet.com/irbid/intro/?SID=19dd7276fd27e159ca96373e2a39c15e/ Irbid.net] ]Demographics
(1994 Est.)
*Population: 1775
*Male: 898
*Female: 877
*Families: 278
*Buildings: 325
*Residential units: 326
*Schools: 3 [ [http://www.dos.gov.jo/sdb_pop/irbid_a.htm/ Source of Demographics] ]References
External links
* [http://www.daleelirbid.com/ Irbid Guide]
* [http://www.irbid.gov.jo/ Greater Irbid Municipality]
* [http://www.irbidnews.com/ Irbid News]
* [http://www.shmmr.net/vb/showthread.php?t=35949/ عشائر شمالي الاردن]
* [http://www.irbidnet.com/pub_system/viewpost.php?postid=82&session=e0f152d7c3d968212c835f726fd70dc7/ IrbidDotNet ]
* [http://www.irbidnet.com/irbid/intro/?SID=19dd7276fd27e159ca96373e2a39c15e/ IrbidDotNet ]
* [http://www.just.edu.jo/ Jordan University of Science and Technology]
* [http://www.yu.edu.jo/ Yarmouk University]
* [http://www.inu.edu.jo/ Irbid University]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=IRBID,+JORDAN&ie=UTF8&ll=32.473781,35.842187&spn=0.008128,0.021286&t=k&om=0/ See Habaka حبكا]
* [http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A العمري]
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