Habaka

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| subdivision_name1 = Irbid Governorate

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Habaka ({{langx|ar|حَبَكا}}) is a small hill town in northern Jordan, located 75 km north of the capital Amman, and about 5 km south of Irbid. The region has a very fertile soil along with suitable climate allows the growing of a 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.

Habaka had a population of 4114 in 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.dos.gov.jo/dos_home_a/main/population/census2015/No_of_pop_depand_on_GOV.pdf|format=|title=The General Census - 2015 |publisher=Department of Population Statistics}}

History

Recent discoveries in the area of Tell Johfiyeh, which is in Johfiyeh near Habaka, goes back to the Iron Age.{{Cite web|url=https://irbidnet.com/blog/|title=اربد نت|website=اربد نت}}

The town was home to Islamic scholar Ali bin Ziadah bin Abd Alrahman Alhabaki Alshafie (Arabic: علي بن زيادة بن عبد الرحمن الحبكي الشافعي), died in 1364.{{citeweb|url=https://ich.gov.jo/node/52040|title=تراجم لبعض العلماء والفقهاء والأدباء والشعراء في منطقة عجلون في العصر المملوكي|language=ar|website=ich.gov.jo|access-date=2024-12-19}}

In 1596, during the Ottoman Empire, Habaka was noted in the census as being located in the nahiya of Bani al-Asar in the Liwa of Hawran. It had a population of 18 households and 11 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on various agricultural products which includes wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards/fruit trees, goats and beehives in addition to occasional revenues. The total comes to 8,000 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 205

In 1838 Habaka was noted as being ruined/deserted.Smith, in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/165/mode/1up 165]

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 428 inhabitants in Habaka.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensusPages/JordanCensus1961-p18.pdf 18]

Demographics

(1994 Est.)

Population: 1775
Male: 2500
Female: 3254
Families: 450
Buildings: 500
Residential units: 326
Schools: 3{{Cite web |url=http://www.dos.gov.jo/sdb_pop/irbid_a.htm/ |title=Source of Demographics |access-date=2006-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060505054727/http://www.dos.gov.jo/sdb_pop/irbid_a.htm |archive-date=2006-05-05 |url-status=dead }}

References

Bibliography

{{cite book | title = First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population | author = Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics | year = 1964|url=http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/JordanCensus1961bits.pdf}}
{{cite book

| last1= Hütteroth |first1=W.-D.|author-link1=Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth

| last2 =Abdulfattah|first2=K. |author-link2=Kamal Abdulfattah

| title = Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century

|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wqULAAAAIAAJ

| year = 1977

| publisher = Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft

|isbn= 3-920405-41-2}}

{{cite book

|last1=Robinson|first1=E.|authorlink1=Edward Robinson (scholar)

|last2=Smith|first2=E.|authorlink2=Eli Smith

|year=1841|url=https://archive.org/details/biblicalresearch03robiuoft

|title=Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838|

location=Boston|publisher=Crocker & Brewster

|volume=3}}

External links

{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20051221060654/http://daleelirbid.com/ Irbid Guide]}}
[http://www.irbid.gov.jo/ Greater Irbid Municipality]
{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20050811175741/http://www.irbidnews.com/ Irbid News]}}

Category:Populated places in Irbid Governorate