Irbid
Is the second largest city after the capital, Amman, Jordan for a number of the population. Sophisticated city economically, commercially and academically, have a whale since the middle of last century, the elements of a great attraction for the surrounding countryside, ICE a population of a few thousand to nearly 300,000 people today. It's mother Jordanian villages: more than 500 villages surrounded by all sides, one of the most distinctive cities in the world in this matter. Around many valleys, ongoing and dry.
Irbid is the most important industrial and administrative cities in the north of the kingdom, which is home to the University of Yarmouk and Jordan University of Science and Technology. It is a central point for the discovery of the Jordanian north towards Umm Qais and archaeological layer stallion. Hamma very close to the mountains of Ajloun at hand.
Of the most beautiful areas in Irbid: -
_ The jungles and forests Bargash
Gaining Mount Bargash; which is a nature reserve older than hundreds of years; forests an important place for domestic tourism.
And experiencing this forest, which lies in Al Koura in Irbid, a large turnout by people as Bargash enjoy natural aesthetics of their own and distinguish them from others and is located Bargash forests in the southeast of the Koura (in the town of Jdita) in Irbid Governorate, and harboring these forests hundreds of species of animals and creatures live, and many of the trees back to life more than 500 years.
It also includes the only known natural cave in Jordan, a cave back, which is estimated at 4 million years old, which is also a natural landmark featured globally.
Featuring Bargash forests beauty and Rabieha and environment and forests rich and towering mountains and orchards water and shadows and rich valleys, these forests and includes about two million old forest trees of oak and Elah, hawthorn, located these forests in the northwest of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and away from the city of Irbid 31 km to the south.
_ Umm Qais
It is located on a high hill in the north of Jordan, and oversees the Sea of Galilee and the Golan Heights were Umm Qais known in ancient times in the name of Gadara.
Of the most important features that you will see there are: -
Theater
Arcaded shops
Roman baths complex
Graves
Porch
Central Church
Umm Qais Museum
_ Hamma Jordan: -
Hamma is located 100 km north of Amman, is one of the most vital therapeutic and tourist sites in the area. It has been established spa and some clinics that provide many of the services for visitors to the area. A center for people who suffer from diseases and respiratory problems in addition to the availability of treatment of skin diseases and diseases related to the nervous system and joints. On the other hand, the Hamma hotel can provide a haven for people who may want more than a one night stay
_ Shalala: -
Shalala is the area in the District of Ramtha of the most beautiful natural tourist areas, which is the only outlet for the children
Maj. Gen. not far from the city center for more than four kilometers and most distinguishes the water eye that stem from the inside
Mount and fertile soil and fig trees, olive and oleander.
The region includes a number of archaeological and historical sites dating back to the stone ages, and is still Albroonzih, archaeological indicators
Physical predictors for the presence of the place and the attention of human since those times. Shalala is the only outlet for the children Brigade, a tourist area of unique style which vary
Geography between mountains and plains, except where water is available and can be a tourist village and agricultural world that took advantage of the form
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North bride is a city in the north of Jordan, the capital of the governorate of Irbid and its largest city, is the second largest city after the capital, Amman, Jordan for a number of the population. Located 80 kilometers north of the capital, almost. Had its beginnings in Roman times was built in the average between the cities of Decapolis ten historic site, and later became a center of Islamic conquest centers. Estimated the city's population of about a million people and the number is increasing by adding its suburbs and surrounding villages to nearly a million and a quarter. The estimated area of the city with its suburbs, about 160 square kilometers.
Naming
It is named after an ancient Roman Berabila word meaning "black." It is said that the current name is only a distortion of the name of the ancient Romanian town "House of Erbil" Beth Arbel, or may be derived from the word "Rabdh" because of the color of the soil red agricultural land and accompanied Psoad rock volcanic deployed in the vicinity of the city, where it is said Irbid face; any red the darkening red when angry, which means that the current name "Irbid" was adapted from the word to refer to Rabdh recipe place. Sapphire Hamwi was mentioned in the Dictionary of countries it was broken to pronounce (Irbid), and conquest (Irbid), and mentioned by ancient Arabs open authored and stillness ra "Irbid."
Irbid, also called Baloqahoana, commonly use this name among intellectuals and government circles, this label has come to spread this kind of roses in the city of Irbid, has Alaqahoana name frequency signal to the city of Irbid during the Frankish conflict in Palestine in 1099.
This is dubbed the city of Irbid as well as the Bride of the North, and perhaps the latest names and titles, as well as the "capital of the North" for being the Irbid Governorate center and the largest city in northern Jordan nicknamed.
Site
The city built on flat land and undulating north west of the Jordan, rising an average of about 700 meters above sea level, and the city brokered Irbid Governorate almost away from the Jordanian capital, Amman, about 85 kilometers to the north, which her family to act as liaison between the desert to the east and the Jordan Valley to the west, and make it an important center for the exchange of products between rural and urban areas and the desert. It is the most important transportation center to link the province with the rest of the governorates of Jordan.
In terms of latitude and longitude, is located at latitude 32 degrees, 32 minutes north of the equator, and the longitude 35 degrees 51 minutes east of Greenwich line.
Tracking Mudbna Irbid historically easy Horan area stretching from southern Syria to the north of Jordan, where there is in that area many archaeological areas measured as a mother and the head of the house and the fort and layer stallion surrounded by agricultural fertile plains of northern and eastern sides and South. The city is located in the median area of Gilad site (Gilead) historical mentioned in the Bible and other Christian historical writings.
And oversees the highlands in Irbid easy Horan and on the north of Palestine. And you can see the Syrian Jordanian Palestinian clearly Triangle area of North Irbid specifically Umm Qais, which can be seen from the Sea of Galilee where any high place.
Irbid associated with Oman presidents in two ways: first by Jerash, and the second through Mafraq, Zarqa. It is also associated with the Damascus road of Ramtha, however Baghdad accidentally Mafraq - Ruwaished.
Space and planned organizational
Did not exceed the area of the city in the Ottoman Empire 10 hectares (0.10 km²) and remained so before the end of the First World War, and Olknha began to flourish and gradually increasing in size since the twenties of the last century when it became the Provincial Brigade Ajloun center commercial center no matter what. In the thirties Irbid area became about 30 hectares (0.31 square kilometers), and in the fifties of this century Irbid grown remarkable growth the arrival of Palestinian refugees to reach the city's area to 131 hectares (1.32 square kilometers). In 1979 an area of about 600 hectares (24 square kilometers) in the year 1995 was estimated area of the city with the suburbs about 3,300 hectares (33 square kilometers).
The organizational chart of the city of Irbid a form sixfold. And extends the built-shaped axes along the roads linking Irbid its territory. In a westerly direction urbanization spread along Palestine Street and up to the north side of the merged area yesterday. At the direction of the south urbanization spread along the street and Edon Army dock Yarmouk University campus. At the direction of the Middle urbanization spread along Baghdad Street. At the direction of the North was to create industrial city impact in attracting population and urbanization so, which led to the arrival of urbanization limits some of the small villages to the north of Irbid, this urbanization spread along the streets of judgment and Abdul Qader al-Husseini covered the northern areas that were Mrdoma addition to the slaughterhouse old.
Occupy residential areas, 74.3% of the city of Irbid area, service areas and come in second place and occupy 9.5%, followed by free zones and land space by 7.7%, and commercial areas around 4.2% to 3.3% of industrial zones, green zones 1%. The distribution of housing in different districts of the city, characterized by buildings of certain characteristics imposed by the process of organizing buildings.
Population
The number of Irbid residents in the late nineteenth century, about 5,000 people, and this number seen any significant increases over half a decade, with a population of 10,700 inhabitants in 1946. But that number jumped to 1952 m to reach a population of about 22 thousand people, this increase is due to the migration of Palestinians after the 48 war. In the 1961 census, the population of 55 thousand people. The population of the city of Irbid has seen a significant increase again after the 1967 war, the arrival of the displaced Palestinians. The number of the population in 1979 of about 120 thousand people, and an estimated 201 208 people in the year 1995.
This is because the increasing population of the city of Irbid rapidly to the following factors:
1. Palestinians come to Irbid and housing after the catastrophe of 1948, and a setback in 1967, and the second Gulf War in 1991.
2. join the village yesterday to Irbid in 1962.
3. migration from the countryside to the city -besb provide employment and public services provided by the municipality, such as health services, and the opening of streets and roads, and lighting services and drinking water, and beautify the city as well as to regulate markets and traffic in the city.
4. establishment of Yarmouk University in Irbid in 1976, than many of our neighboring villages pay to invest in them through the work of the services provided to students and teachers, such as: open libraries, restaurants, restrooms, and hair salons, and accessories, and studios, Internet cafes and Building construction apartments for rent to students and professors at the university, and the same thing happened in the old compound of Amman, where he provided the same services for former students of the University of Science and Technology, established in 1986 east of Irbid.
The population of the city of Irbid today 300.645 people, of whom Jordanian citizens 94%. While the number of residents of Greater Irbid (Irbid) about 1,250,000 thousand people, which means that the population of the city of Irbid proportion of Irbid Governorate equal to about 25%.
The lives of Irbid today more than a thousand clan and family women with Jordanian and Palestinian, Syrian and Kurdish, Turkish and other assets, Muslims make up most of the city's population, but the Christian families make up a significant proportion of the population of the city and has a strong presence in comparison with other cities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
History
Historic monuments show that the city of Irbid has been inhabited since the first Bronze Age, about 2500 BC, there are other evidence indicate the presence of Irbid city dating back to the Middle Bronze Age (2.000 to 1.600 BC). Some other archaeological Findings may indicate the presence of human activity in the city site about 7,000 years ago (ie, circa 5000 BC).
As was Medinharbd part of civilizations Aladomih and civilization and civilization Ghassanian Ammonites and civilizations ancient South Arabian groups. Archaeological Tlha which rises about sixty meters, which was built by man of rock and stones existed thousands of years ago to the present day where he found the effects of the Greek and Roman and Islamic remains.
Its importance has begun to appear in the Hellenistic era. Irbid real boom in the Roman era has begun, Irbid, where she was one of a series of important Romanian Greek cities that have emerged in the region in sync intervals, and these cities:
• Irbid "Arabella"
• head "Capitolias" house
• fort "Dion"
• Umm Qais "Gadara"
• layer stallion "Pella"
• Abila "Abello"
There is a huge building in the city of Irbid was held in honor of the Roman Emperor Marcus Antonius Ratios August.
Christianity spread in this region since the second and third centuries and centuries Ghassanian have established their own state in the north of Irbid in Jordan and the Golan Heights and the plains of Hauran region.
In early Islam, the Islamic leader Sharhabeel Ben managed well from annexing year 13 AH 634 AD, where he dominated the Irbid and the head of the house and Umm Qais, also included Abu Obaida layer stallion, and enables the Khaled ibn al-Walid in the Battle of Yarmouk overcome the Romans in 636 AD / e 15, ending the Roman presence there.
In the reign of the Mamluks were belonging to the city of Irbid on behalf of Damascus, and is considered part of the tribal region. The importance of Irbid in the Mamluk era through Kulqhanda description of this region, where he says:
"" It is the bulk of the country's maize, and the livelihoods of Islamic Asaker, and through the Haj to the House of God, visiting the Prophet upon him blessings and peace, and to the Holy Land which are good things institution, and to honest doors Bowl, corridor merchants and going Mufti of Egypt, and the homes of the Bedouins, and citizen Alashran "".
It was the city of Irbid in the Ayyubid important role in the communication and transport traffic between Damascus and Acre on the Palestinian coast, and it was on those who want to reach Acre pass through the city of Irbid.
Occurred in Irbid such well-known incident, which took place at the time of the Fatimid Caliph al-era Ali az-Zahir between the Fatimid state and the Arab tribes year 420 AH 1029 m.
During the reign of the Ottoman Sanjak Mount Ajloun was established in 1851 year AD and was comprised of aspects of Koura and brown Jhma, cypress, moderation and Bani Obeid and penance and Mount Ajloun, Jerash and spread to Nablus to the west and the Prince Rashid bin Khazaee Alfrehat another permanent Sanjak of Mount Ajloun, where he was a commissioner always by Royal Ottoman court in that time, and in 1910 was Ajloun spend consists of the city of Irbid and 120 other village, and at the announcement of the First World War in 1914 to impose conscription on Sandzak Ajloun residents, including residents of the city of Irbid, and after that befell defeat Turks Turkish army withdrew the seventh of Irbid year 1917, and in 1918 a British brigade arrived to Irbid to expel the rest of the Turks; but he could not reach to the city to complete its task because of the fierce Almqguama shown by the people under the leadership of Mustafa Musa Yousuf hill.
After the withdrawal of the British army in 1919, Irbid became subject to the rule of Faisaly in Damascus, and remained so until the end of the Covenant Faisaly in the month of July 1920.
In early 1920, consisted in the Emirate of transitional Jordan (Transjordan) three local administrations, known as local governments, namely: Government Ajloun, Salt and the Government, and the Government of Karak. As for the Government of Ajloun was based in Irbid, headed by the existing built on congenital Alhraira, who was appointed as chairman of the Administrative Council Legislative which was originally formed to help the existing shrine on the performance of his duties, and a decision was made at that time to lift the Syrian flag Arab with a one-star at the Government House and the municipality caught in the city of Irbid, and decides to use the Ottoman laws, with some minor modifications.
In 1921, His Highness Prince Abdullah of Transjordan and ended the reign of the local governments, were Sandzak's name was changed to the Provincial Brigade Ajloun in 1927 AD and remained Irbid is the epicenter, and in the early sixties of the last century has become Almtsrvip "brigade Irbid" name until 1966, when called the current "Irbid Governorate" in its name and status of the city of Irbid, where clerks of Irbid Governorate brigades Jerash, Ajloun, Mafraq, Ramtha, Koura and the children of slaves and good Yarmouk North Valleys.
Remains in Irbid many shrines of the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and many mosques and religious edifices, Irbid mosque Mamluk and Ottoman Saraya known as the old prison.
Jordan where the poet Mustafa Wahbi Hill said:
Hey Irbid beads bless Hayya despite estrangement Although each intersection
The topography of the region
Characterized Irbid region of fertile plains and valleys in abundance, such as:
• Wadi Rayan (dry valley) near the village of deaf
• Valley Dalban: near the village of Beit Jaffa
• Valley Jeron: near the village shrine
• Death Valley: near the village of Smoa
• Valley Aghaffr: He is famous among the people of Amman and Irbid, located west of West neighborhood sleepless directly inspired by the Turkmen and eastern villages of life in nature and Zhr.
• Valley Acharayah in Arhaba.
And conduct some dry valleys around the city of Irbid, such as valleys Aghaffr, and yesterday, and butter, and the bathroom, and Delham, and tribal, and Ruwayyah
Villages in Irbid
The Irbid Governorate contain very many villages in comparison with other regions in Jordan which gave Irbid distinctive reputation among other Jordanian cities. And one of the most cities in the world where there is a large number of villages, which estimated at nearly a hundred villages and residential communities Atraouhn dramatically for the size and number of population and distance from the center of the city of Irbid and these villages
Frank, Bushra, Sal, Naemeh, fort, Qmim, Arhaba, Doukrh, Aal, Beit Ras, Shm expiation, modulator, quartz, accept, judgment, Kafr passengers, Edon, butter Farkouh, life in nature, the house of Jaffa, Sum, Jajin, Zhr , Jmha, Kafr Rahta, Shatana, mute, Ham, Asaara, Fo'raa, poplar, or braids, Harima, went out, Kafr El-Assad, abscess, then, Kvraan, Hofa Wind moderation, Deir Sana, good, deaf, Mendh, subversive, northern Shrine , Deryousef, Johfiyeh, Habaka, Samad, Zobia, grape, Abrahamic, Kafr Jays, Deir Abu Said, Smoa, Zmal, Jenin Safa, scalding, Kfralme, hello, Gevin, its adoption, Ashrafieh, Kafr passengers, House EADS, Jdita, Kufr 'Awan , Kwrabel, Sama Al Rosan, Umm Qais, Hatem, fallow, Abla, Rafid, Habras, Shm, Abdr, scorpion, Faouqa disappointing, disappointing Tahta, king, Mansoura, Mazirab, Ezrat, Samar, cottage, Ramtha, turrah, Alzneph, tree , Aamrawh, egg, North Barn, lenticular, Bakura, Mansheya, Sheikh Hussein Bridge, Waqas, primers, gracious, and Valley dry, layer stallion - Natifah
Economically
Irbid now depend heavily on their economies on human resources, especially the educated class as a result of the decline in agricultural activity, but this does not diminish the importance of other agricultural and industrial and commercial activities
Agriculturally
Irbid is one of the most active agricultural cities in Jordan, where citrus, olives and grain produced in addition to honey production and livestock. But agricultural activity has seen a decline in recent years due to lack of water and urbanization. There in Irbid today Soukan are reserved for agricultural products is called the name of both the calculation (calculation old and arithmetic in the center of the country). The cultivation of Irbid directorate was established in the mid-forties
Industrially
And light industries are concentrated in the heart of each of the Irbid city and its outskirts. The most important industries in the city, clothing and printing presses, knitting, leather center. As for the food industry, building materials, furniture, tiles, marble, brick and soap, are deployed on the outskirts of the city. Among the most important industrial projects in Irbid: Irbid District Electricity Company, and the power plant, industrial and cities represented in Al Hassan Industrial Estate, the city trucks. Hassan Industrial City is one of the strongest representing this sector as an industrial city eligible (QIZ) any products that enter the United States without restriction and duty-free
Tourist
Located in the city's houses and archaeological sites of several considered one of the city's heritage, such as the Turkish Saraya and the mosque Mamluk and the Museum of Irbid and layer stallion and Beit Ras, Beit Arar and the Museum of Greater Irbid Municipality Besides we are many homes older than a hundred years and has a recorded history and tradition like a house on congenital Alhraira and other houses old within the perimeter of the ancient city of Irbid. However, the city lacks the presence of tourist hotels and high-quality restaurants.
Commercially
Irbid is an important commercial center since ancient times, as the number of commercial Mahalha amounted to about 500 stores in the twenties of the last century. On this day, the trade is considered one of the most important economic events, a modern function that prints the city character, Hitha turns view Irbid visitors to the many shops that covers most of the traditional and modern business activities together. And. Today in Irbid modern and diverse stores, which occupies the center of the city, due to the development of the commercial sector and the continued growth and prosperity of the Irbid Chamber of Industry was established in 1950 to regulate commercial and industrial interests. Of the central business district area about the size of square kilometers.
Is the second largest city after the capital, Amman, Jordan for a number of the population. Sophisticated city economically, commercially and academically, have a whale since the middle of last century, the elements of a great attraction for the surrounding countryside, ICE a population of a few thousand to nearly 300,000 people today. It's mother Jordanian villages: more than 500 villages surrounded by all sides, one of the most distinctive cities in the world in this matter. Around many valleys, ongoing and dry.
Irbid is the most important industrial and administrative cities in the north of the kingdom, which is home to the University of Yarmouk and Jordan University of Science and Technology. It is a central point for the discovery of the Jordanian north towards Umm Qais and archaeological layer stallion. Hamma very close to the mountains of Ajloun at hand.
Of the most beautiful areas in Irbid: -
_ The jungles and forests Bargash
Gaining Mount Bargash; which is a nature reserve older than hundreds of years; forests an important place for domestic tourism.
And experiencing this forest, which lies in Al Koura in Irbid, a large turnout by people as Bargash enjoy natural aesthetics of their own and distinguish them from others and is located Bargash forests in the southeast of the Koura (in the town of Jdita) in Irbid Governorate, and harboring these forests hundreds of species of animals and creatures live, and many of the trees back to life more than 500 years.
It also includes the only known natural cave in Jordan, a cave back, which is estimated at 4 million years old, which is also a natural landmark featured globally.
Featuring Bargash forests beauty and Rabieha and environment and forests rich and towering mountains and orchards water and shadows and rich valleys, these forests and includes about two million old forest trees of oak and Elah, hawthorn, located these forests in the northwest of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and away from the city of Irbid 31 km to the south.
_ Umm Qais
It is located on a high hill in the north of Jordan, and oversees the Sea of Galilee and the Golan Heights were Umm Qais known in ancient times in the name of Gadara.
Of the most important features that you will see there are: -
Theater
Arcaded shops
Roman baths complex
Graves
Porch
Central Church
Umm Qais Museum
_ Hamma Jordan: -
Hamma is located 100 km north of Amman, is one of the most vital therapeutic and tourist sites in the area. It has been established spa and some clinics that provide many of the services for visitors to the area. A center for people who suffer from diseases and respiratory problems in addition to the availability of treatment of skin diseases and diseases related to the nervous system and joints. On the other hand, the Hamma hotel can provide a haven for people who may want more than a one night stay
_ Shalala: -
Shalala is the area in the District of Ramtha of the most beautiful natural tourist areas, which is the only outlet for the children
Maj. Gen. not far from the city center for more than four kilometers and most distinguishes the water eye that stem from the inside
Mount and fertile soil and fig trees, olive and oleander.
The region includes a number of archaeological and historical sites dating back to the stone ages, and is still Albroonzih, archaeological indicators
Physical predictors for the presence of the place and the attention of human since those times. Shalala is the only outlet for the children Brigade, a tourist area of unique style which vary
Geography between mountains and plains, except where water is available and can be a tourist village and agricultural world that took advantage of the form
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North bride is a city in the north of Jordan, the capital of the governorate of Irbid and its largest city, is the second largest city after the capital, Amman, Jordan for a number of the population. Located 80 kilometers north of the capital, almost. Had its beginnings in Roman times was built in the average between the cities of Decapolis ten historic site, and later became a center of Islamic conquest centers. Estimated the city's population of about a million people and the number is increasing by adding its suburbs and surrounding villages to nearly a million and a quarter. The estimated area of the city with its suburbs, about 160 square kilometers.
Naming
It is named after an ancient Roman Berabila word meaning "black." It is said that the current name is only a distortion of the name of the ancient Romanian town "House of Erbil" Beth Arbel, or may be derived from the word "Rabdh" because of the color of the soil red agricultural land and accompanied Psoad rock volcanic deployed in the vicinity of the city, where it is said Irbid face; any red the darkening red when angry, which means that the current name "Irbid" was adapted from the word to refer to Rabdh recipe place. Sapphire Hamwi was mentioned in the Dictionary of countries it was broken to pronounce (Irbid), and conquest (Irbid), and mentioned by ancient Arabs open authored and stillness ra "Irbid."
Irbid, also called Baloqahoana, commonly use this name among intellectuals and government circles, this label has come to spread this kind of roses in the city of Irbid, has Alaqahoana name frequency signal to the city of Irbid during the Frankish conflict in Palestine in 1099.
This is dubbed the city of Irbid as well as the Bride of the North, and perhaps the latest names and titles, as well as the "capital of the North" for being the Irbid Governorate center and the largest city in northern Jordan nicknamed.
Site
The city built on flat land and undulating north west of the Jordan, rising an average of about 700 meters above sea level, and the city brokered Irbid Governorate almost away from the Jordanian capital, Amman, about 85 kilometers to the north, which her family to act as liaison between the desert to the east and the Jordan Valley to the west, and make it an important center for the exchange of products between rural and urban areas and the desert. It is the most important transportation center to link the province with the rest of the governorates of Jordan.
In terms of latitude and longitude, is located at latitude 32 degrees, 32 minutes north of the equator, and the longitude 35 degrees 51 minutes east of Greenwich line.
Tracking Mudbna Irbid historically easy Horan area stretching from southern Syria to the north of Jordan, where there is in that area many archaeological areas measured as a mother and the head of the house and the fort and layer stallion surrounded by agricultural fertile plains of northern and eastern sides and South. The city is located in the median area of Gilad site (Gilead) historical mentioned in the Bible and other Christian historical writings.
And oversees the highlands in Irbid easy Horan and on the north of Palestine. And you can see the Syrian Jordanian Palestinian clearly Triangle area of North Irbid specifically Umm Qais, which can be seen from the Sea of Galilee where any high place.
Irbid associated with Oman presidents in two ways: first by Jerash, and the second through Mafraq, Zarqa. It is also associated with the Damascus road of Ramtha, however Baghdad accidentally Mafraq - Ruwaished.
Space and planned organizational
Did not exceed the area of the city in the Ottoman Empire 10 hectares (0.10 km²) and remained so before the end of the First World War, and Olknha began to flourish and gradually increasing in size since the twenties of the last century when it became the Provincial Brigade Ajloun center commercial center no matter what. In the thirties Irbid area became about 30 hectares (0.31 square kilometers), and in the fifties of this century Irbid grown remarkable growth the arrival of Palestinian refugees to reach the city's area to 131 hectares (1.32 square kilometers). In 1979 an area of about 600 hectares (24 square kilometers) in the year 1995 was estimated area of the city with the suburbs about 3,300 hectares (33 square kilometers).
The organizational chart of the city of Irbid a form sixfold. And extends the built-shaped axes along the roads linking Irbid its territory. In a westerly direction urbanization spread along Palestine Street and up to the north side of the merged area yesterday. At the direction of the south urbanization spread along the street and Edon Army dock Yarmouk University campus. At the direction of the Middle urbanization spread along Baghdad Street. At the direction of the North was to create industrial city impact in attracting population and urbanization so, which led to the arrival of urbanization limits some of the small villages to the north of Irbid, this urbanization spread along the streets of judgment and Abdul Qader al-Husseini covered the northern areas that were Mrdoma addition to the slaughterhouse old.
Occupy residential areas, 74.3% of the city of Irbid area, service areas and come in second place and occupy 9.5%, followed by free zones and land space by 7.7%, and commercial areas around 4.2% to 3.3% of industrial zones, green zones 1%. The distribution of housing in different districts of the city, characterized by buildings of certain characteristics imposed by the process of organizing buildings.
Population
The number of Irbid residents in the late nineteenth century, about 5,000 people, and this number seen any significant increases over half a decade, with a population of 10,700 inhabitants in 1946. But that number jumped to 1952 m to reach a population of about 22 thousand people, this increase is due to the migration of Palestinians after the 48 war. In the 1961 census, the population of 55 thousand people. The population of the city of Irbid has seen a significant increase again after the 1967 war, the arrival of the displaced Palestinians. The number of the population in 1979 of about 120 thousand people, and an estimated 201 208 people in the year 1995.
This is because the increasing population of the city of Irbid rapidly to the following factors:
1. Palestinians come to Irbid and housing after the catastrophe of 1948, and a setback in 1967, and the second Gulf War in 1991.
2. join the village yesterday to Irbid in 1962.
3. migration from the countryside to the city -besb provide employment and public services provided by the municipality, such as health services, and the opening of streets and roads, and lighting services and drinking water, and beautify the city as well as to regulate markets and traffic in the city.
4. establishment of Yarmouk University in Irbid in 1976, than many of our neighboring villages pay to invest in them through the work of the services provided to students and teachers, such as: open libraries, restaurants, restrooms, and hair salons, and accessories, and studios, Internet cafes and Building construction apartments for rent to students and professors at the university, and the same thing happened in the old compound of Amman, where he provided the same services for former students of the University of Science and Technology, established in 1986 east of Irbid.
The population of the city of Irbid today 300.645 people, of whom Jordanian citizens 94%. While the number of residents of Greater Irbid (Irbid) about 1,250,000 thousand people, which means that the population of the city of Irbid proportion of Irbid Governorate equal to about 25%.
The lives of Irbid today more than a thousand clan and family women with Jordanian and Palestinian, Syrian and Kurdish, Turkish and other assets, Muslims make up most of the city's population, but the Christian families make up a significant proportion of the population of the city and has a strong presence in comparison with other cities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
History
Historic monuments show that the city of Irbid has been inhabited since the first Bronze Age, about 2500 BC, there are other evidence indicate the presence of Irbid city dating back to the Middle Bronze Age (2.000 to 1.600 BC). Some other archaeological Findings may indicate the presence of human activity in the city site about 7,000 years ago (ie, circa 5000 BC).
As was Medinharbd part of civilizations Aladomih and civilization and civilization Ghassanian Ammonites and civilizations ancient South Arabian groups. Archaeological Tlha which rises about sixty meters, which was built by man of rock and stones existed thousands of years ago to the present day where he found the effects of the Greek and Roman and Islamic remains.
Its importance has begun to appear in the Hellenistic era. Irbid real boom in the Roman era has begun, Irbid, where she was one of a series of important Romanian Greek cities that have emerged in the region in sync intervals, and these cities:
• Irbid "Arabella"
• head "Capitolias" house
• fort "Dion"
• Umm Qais "Gadara"
• layer stallion "Pella"
• Abila "Abello"
There is a huge building in the city of Irbid was held in honor of the Roman Emperor Marcus Antonius Ratios August.
Christianity spread in this region since the second and third centuries and centuries Ghassanian have established their own state in the north of Irbid in Jordan and the Golan Heights and the plains of Hauran region.
In early Islam, the Islamic leader Sharhabeel Ben managed well from annexing year 13 AH 634 AD, where he dominated the Irbid and the head of the house and Umm Qais, also included Abu Obaida layer stallion, and enables the Khaled ibn al-Walid in the Battle of Yarmouk overcome the Romans in 636 AD / e 15, ending the Roman presence there.
In the reign of the Mamluks were belonging to the city of Irbid on behalf of Damascus, and is considered part of the tribal region. The importance of Irbid in the Mamluk era through Kulqhanda description of this region, where he says:
"" It is the bulk of the country's maize, and the livelihoods of Islamic Asaker, and through the Haj to the House of God, visiting the Prophet upon him blessings and peace, and to the Holy Land which are good things institution, and to honest doors Bowl, corridor merchants and going Mufti of Egypt, and the homes of the Bedouins, and citizen Alashran "".
It was the city of Irbid in the Ayyubid important role in the communication and transport traffic between Damascus and Acre on the Palestinian coast, and it was on those who want to reach Acre pass through the city of Irbid.
Occurred in Irbid such well-known incident, which took place at the time of the Fatimid Caliph al-era Ali az-Zahir between the Fatimid state and the Arab tribes year 420 AH 1029 m.
During the reign of the Ottoman Sanjak Mount Ajloun was established in 1851 year AD and was comprised of aspects of Koura and brown Jhma, cypress, moderation and Bani Obeid and penance and Mount Ajloun, Jerash and spread to Nablus to the west and the Prince Rashid bin Khazaee Alfrehat another permanent Sanjak of Mount Ajloun, where he was a commissioner always by Royal Ottoman court in that time, and in 1910 was Ajloun spend consists of the city of Irbid and 120 other village, and at the announcement of the First World War in 1914 to impose conscription on Sandzak Ajloun residents, including residents of the city of Irbid, and after that befell defeat Turks Turkish army withdrew the seventh of Irbid year 1917, and in 1918 a British brigade arrived to Irbid to expel the rest of the Turks; but he could not reach to the city to complete its task because of the fierce Almqguama shown by the people under the leadership of Mustafa Musa Yousuf hill.
After the withdrawal of the British army in 1919, Irbid became subject to the rule of Faisaly in Damascus, and remained so until the end of the Covenant Faisaly in the month of July 1920.
In early 1920, consisted in the Emirate of transitional Jordan (Transjordan) three local administrations, known as local governments, namely: Government Ajloun, Salt and the Government, and the Government of Karak. As for the Government of Ajloun was based in Irbid, headed by the existing built on congenital Alhraira, who was appointed as chairman of the Administrative Council Legislative which was originally formed to help the existing shrine on the performance of his duties, and a decision was made at that time to lift the Syrian flag Arab with a one-star at the Government House and the municipality caught in the city of Irbid, and decides to use the Ottoman laws, with some minor modifications.
In 1921, His Highness Prince Abdullah of Transjordan and ended the reign of the local governments, were Sandzak's name was changed to the Provincial Brigade Ajloun in 1927 AD and remained Irbid is the epicenter, and in the early sixties of the last century has become Almtsrvip "brigade Irbid" name until 1966, when called the current "Irbid Governorate" in its name and status of the city of Irbid, where clerks of Irbid Governorate brigades Jerash, Ajloun, Mafraq, Ramtha, Koura and the children of slaves and good Yarmouk North Valleys.
Remains in Irbid many shrines of the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and many mosques and religious edifices, Irbid mosque Mamluk and Ottoman Saraya known as the old prison.
Jordan where the poet Mustafa Wahbi Hill said:
Hey Irbid beads bless Hayya despite estrangement Although each intersection
The topography of the region
Characterized Irbid region of fertile plains and valleys in abundance, such as:
• Wadi Rayan (dry valley) near the village of deaf
• Valley Dalban: near the village of Beit Jaffa
• Valley Jeron: near the village shrine
• Death Valley: near the village of Smoa
• Valley Aghaffr: He is famous among the people of Amman and Irbid, located west of West neighborhood sleepless directly inspired by the Turkmen and eastern villages of life in nature and Zhr.
• Valley Acharayah in Arhaba.
And conduct some dry valleys around the city of Irbid, such as valleys Aghaffr, and yesterday, and butter, and the bathroom, and Delham, and tribal, and Ruwayyah
Villages in Irbid
The Irbid Governorate contain very many villages in comparison with other regions in Jordan which gave Irbid distinctive reputation among other Jordanian cities. And one of the most cities in the world where there is a large number of villages, which estimated at nearly a hundred villages and residential communities Atraouhn dramatically for the size and number of population and distance from the center of the city of Irbid and these villages
Frank, Bushra, Sal, Naemeh, fort, Qmim, Arhaba, Doukrh, Aal, Beit Ras, Shm expiation, modulator, quartz, accept, judgment, Kafr passengers, Edon, butter Farkouh, life in nature, the house of Jaffa, Sum, Jajin, Zhr , Jmha, Kafr Rahta, Shatana, mute, Ham, Asaara, Fo'raa, poplar, or braids, Harima, went out, Kafr El-Assad, abscess, then, Kvraan, Hofa Wind moderation, Deir Sana, good, deaf, Mendh, subversive, northern Shrine , Deryousef, Johfiyeh, Habaka, Samad, Zobia, grape, Abrahamic, Kafr Jays, Deir Abu Said, Smoa, Zmal, Jenin Safa, scalding, Kfralme, hello, Gevin, its adoption, Ashrafieh, Kafr passengers, House EADS, Jdita, Kufr 'Awan , Kwrabel, Sama Al Rosan, Umm Qais, Hatem, fallow, Abla, Rafid, Habras, Shm, Abdr, scorpion, Faouqa disappointing, disappointing Tahta, king, Mansoura, Mazirab, Ezrat, Samar, cottage, Ramtha, turrah, Alzneph, tree , Aamrawh, egg, North Barn, lenticular, Bakura, Mansheya, Sheikh Hussein Bridge, Waqas, primers, gracious, and Valley dry, layer stallion - Natifah
Economically
Irbid now depend heavily on their economies on human resources, especially the educated class as a result of the decline in agricultural activity, but this does not diminish the importance of other agricultural and industrial and commercial activities
Agriculturally
Irbid is one of the most active agricultural cities in Jordan, where citrus, olives and grain produced in addition to honey production and livestock. But agricultural activity has seen a decline in recent years due to lack of water and urbanization. There in Irbid today Soukan are reserved for agricultural products is called the name of both the calculation (calculation old and arithmetic in the center of the country). The cultivation of Irbid directorate was established in the mid-forties
Industrially
And light industries are concentrated in the heart of each of the Irbid city and its outskirts. The most important industries in the city, clothing and printing presses, knitting, leather center. As for the food industry, building materials, furniture, tiles, marble, brick and soap, are deployed on the outskirts of the city. Among the most important industrial projects in Irbid: Irbid District Electricity Company, and the power plant, industrial and cities represented in Al Hassan Industrial Estate, the city trucks. Hassan Industrial City is one of the strongest representing this sector as an industrial city eligible (QIZ) any products that enter the United States without restriction and duty-free
Tourist
Located in the city's houses and archaeological sites of several considered one of the city's heritage, such as the Turkish Saraya and the mosque Mamluk and the Museum of Irbid and layer stallion and Beit Ras, Beit Arar and the Museum of Greater Irbid Municipality Besides we are many homes older than a hundred years and has a recorded history and tradition like a house on congenital Alhraira and other houses old within the perimeter of the ancient city of Irbid. However, the city lacks the presence of tourist hotels and high-quality restaurants.
Commercially
Irbid is an important commercial center since ancient times, as the number of commercial Mahalha amounted to about 500 stores in the twenties of the last century. On this day, the trade is considered one of the most important economic events, a modern function that prints the city character, Hitha turns view Irbid visitors to the many shops that covers most of the traditional and modern business activities together. And. Today in Irbid modern and diverse stores, which occupies the center of the city, due to the development of the commercial sector and the continued growth and prosperity of the Irbid Chamber of Industry was established in 1950 to regulate commercial and industrial interests. Of the central business district area about the size of square kilometers.
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