Awan is an Arabic word, which means helper or an assistant. Awans, as a group, are one of the South Asian tribe of Arab origin, living predominantly in western and central parts of the Pakistan's province of Punjab. Since all Awans were Muslims, nearly all of them migrated to Pakistan after independence in 1947. In Pakistan, their populations is concentrated in the districts of Mianwali, Chakwal, Jhelum and Sargodha and also scattered throughout rest of Punjab.Awans were also settled in eastern Punjab mostly in Jallandhar district (Now in Indian Punjab). Being muslims they all migrated to Pakistan after partition of India and Pakistan during 1947. Awans claim their descent from Hazrat Ali (RA), the fourt Caliph of Islam. Originally Arabs, they migrated to South Asia after 712 AD, when Muhammad bin Qasim, a young Arab general from the Syria of the Umayyad Caliphate conquered modern Pakistan.
Awan was the daughter of Adam and Eve, and sister of Cain, Abel, and Seth, according to the Book of Jubilees. She is reported to have been the third child born to Adam and Eve, born immediately after Abel in the fifth jubilee, 250-300 years after the creation of Adam and Eve. She is reported to have married her brother Cain, and to have given birth to Enoch, their son. Cain's wife is not mentioned in Genesis. However, Cain and his son Enoch are mentioned.
Awans is mostly famous for the vendetta which decimated the nobility of Hesbaye from 1297 to 1335.
The 270 Awans knights, led by Guillaume de Waremme, defeated the 350 Waroux knights, led by Henry II de Hermalle.
At the end of the war, the son of the leader of the Awans party, Thiry de Haneffe, married the daughter of the leader of the Waroux party, Wathy de Warfusée, and a church dedicated to the twelve apostles was built to honour the victims of the war.
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