Habaka ( ar, حَبَكا) is a small hill town in northern

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

, located 75 km north of the capital

Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...

(in Arabic عَمَّان), and about 5 km south of

Irbid Irbid ( ar, إِربِد), known in ancient times as Arabella or Arbela (Άρβηλα in Ancient Greek language, Ancient Greek), is the capital and largest city of the Irbid Governorate. It also has the second largest metropolitan population in ...

(Arabic: إِرْبِد). The region has a very fertile soil along with suitable

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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 from

Ajloun Ajloun ( ar, عجلون, ''‘Ajlūn''), also spelled Ajlun, is the capital town of the Ajloun Governorate, a hilly town in the north of Jordan, located 76 kilometers (around 47 miles) north west of Amman. It is noted for its impressive ruins of t ...

(Arabic: عَجْلون). Habaka had a population of 4114 in 2015.

History

Recent discoveries in the area of

Tell Johfiyeh Tell Johfiyeh (2200 BC) is an archeological site in the village of Johfiyeh, Jordan, which dates back to the Iron Age. Geographical Location • Middle East. • Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. • North Jordanian plateau. • 7.5 km south ...

( ar, تل جحفية) -which is in

Johfiyeh Johfiyeh ( ar, جُحفية), also spelled Johfiyah, Juhfiyah or Juhfiyeh, is a historical village in northern Jordan, located 80 kilometers north of the capital Amman and about 7.5 km southwest of the city Irbid. It had a population of 42 ...

near Habaka goes back to the Iron Age. One of the known Islamic scholars called ‘Ali bin ziadah bin abd alrhman alhabaki alshafie’ (in Arabic علي بن زيادة بن عبد الرحمن الحبكي الشافعي) was from Habaka and died in 1364. In 1596, during the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

, Habaka was noted in the

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as being located in the ''

nahiya A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...

'' of '' Bani al-Asar'' in the Liwa of Hawran. It had a population of 18 households and 11 bachelors; all

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards/fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 8,000

akçe The ''akçe'' or ''akça'' (also spelled ''akche'', ''akcheh''; ota, آقچه; ) refers to a silver coin which was the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire. The word itself evolved from the word "silver or silver money", this word is deri ...

. In 1838 Habaka was noted as being ruined/deserted. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 428 inhabitants in Habaka.

Demographics

(1994 Est.) *Population: 1775 *Male: 2500 *Female: 3254 *Families: 450 *Buildings: 500 *Residential units: 326 *Schools: 3

References

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External links

Irbid GuideGreater Irbid MunicipalityIrbid News
Populated places in Irbid Governorate {{Jordan-geo-stub