Aydoun
Aydoun
ايدون | |
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City | |
Aydoun Location in Jordan | |
Coordinates: 32°25′55″N 35°51′30″E / 32.43194°N 35.85833°ECoordinates: 32°25′55″N 35°51′30″E / 32.43194°N 35.85833°E | |
Grid position | 231/212 |
Country | Jordan |
Governorate | Irbid Governorate |
Time zone | UTC + 2 |
Aydoun (Arabic: ايدون, alternatively Adun or Idoun or Edoun) is the name of a city in Irbid Governorate in Jordan. Some writers associate the town with the ancient city of Dium, one of the cities of the Decapolis,[1] but this is disputed. It had a population of 63,244 as of 2018.[2]
History[]
In 1596, during the Ottoman Empire, Aydoun 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 32 households and 21 bachelors; all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops/vineyards/fruit trees, goats and beehives; a total of 10,215 akçe.[3]
In 1838 Aydoun's inhabitants were predominantly Sunni Muslims, and the village was noted as located in the Beni 'Öbeid area.[4]
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,700 inhabitants in Aidun.[5]
Famous people from Aydoun (Idoun)[]
- HE Major General Qassem Pasha Al-Nasser,
- Attorney General Mahmoud Hanandeh
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
- Villages in Irbid governorate