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Banu Sakhr
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Bani Sakhr.
Tribal area and mode of living
The Banu Sakhr were historically a fully Bedouin (nomadic), camel-raising tribe. By the start of the 19th century, their dira' (tribal territory) spanned much of the area that would constitute central Jordan, with summergrounds down the length of the Balqa highlands from the area around Amman in the north to the area around Karak in the south. Their wintergrounds extended east of this region toward the Wadi Sirhan, where the modern eastern border of Jordan with Saudi Arabia is formed.