Habaka

Habaka (Arabic: حبكا) is a small hill town in northern Jordan, located 75 KM north of the capital Amman (in Arabic عمان), and about 5 KM south of Irbid (Arabic: إربد). The region has a very fertile soil along with suitable climate allows the growing of wide variety of high quality corps. The main products are olives, grapes. There is a substantial area of pine forests on the hills that are extending form Ajloun. 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 (Arabic: ‎), which claims to descend from Umar ibn al-Khattab (in Arabic عمر بن الخطاب) the known Muslim calipha. [link]

History

Recent discoveries in the area of ‘tal Juhfiyah’ (in Arabic تل جحفية) -which is shared between Habaka and Juhfiya (in Arabic جحفية)- goes back to the Iron Age. [link] 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. [link]

Demographics

(1994 Est.)

Population: 1775
Male: 898
Female: 877
Families: 278
Buildings: 325
Residential units: 326
Schools: 3

Source: [link]

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