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Huwwarah, also spelled Huwwara and Huwarrah, (Arabic: حوّاره) is a village in north Jordan . It is situated in the Governorate of Irbid. It is one of many agricultural villages in the fertile mud plains of Houran (also spelled Hawran). The mud plains of Houran bridge the gap between the Golan Heights in the west and the Sham desert to the east. The southern part of Houran is in North Jordan. Huwwarah if flanked by the ancient sites of Ramoth-Gilead (Ramtha, Jordan) in Gilead to the east and Arabella (Irbid) to the west. North, it is bordered by Sal and Bishra, and south and southeast it is bordered by Sareeh. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1025x1116, 254 KB) Huwwarah[1] This is a satellite image of Huwwarah[2] in 1992. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1025x1116, 254 KB) Huwwarah[1] This is a satellite image of Huwwarah[2] in 1992. ... Arabic ( or just ), is the largest member of the family of Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic. ... Irbid in the spring Irbid (Arabic: إربد), the ancient Arabella, is Jordans second largest city located about 85 km north of Amman, situated at an equal distance from Pella and Umm Qais and 7 km to the north from Al Hisn. ... Hauran, also Hawran or Houran, (Arabic: ‎, translit: ) is the southern region of modern-day Syria. ... Hauran, also Hawran or Houran, (Arabic: ‎, translit: ) is the southern region of modern-day Syria. ... Sites on the Golan in blue are Israeli settlement communities. ... Hauran, also Hawran or Houran, (Arabic: ‎, translit: ) is the southern region of modern-day Syria. ... Ramtha (Arabic: الرمثا) is a town in northwestern Jordan, near the border with Syria. ... From the Scriptures, Gilead means hill of testimony or mound of witness, (Gen. ... Arabella is an opera (lyric comedy in 3 acts) by Richard Strauss with libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last common work. ...

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History

The history of Huwwarah is part of the history of Houran. See [1] for Burckhardt's (Johann Ludwig Burckhardt)'s account of a relatively recent history of the area (the winter of 1810). Hauran, also Hawran or Houran, (Arabic: ‎, translit: ) is the southern region of modern-day Syria. ... Jakob Burckhardt (May 25, 1818–August 8, 1897) was a Swiss historian of art and culture. ... Johann Ludwig (aka John Lewis) Burckhardt (November 24, 1784 - October 15, 1817), Swiss traveller and orientalist, was born in Lausanne. ...

It is unknown when Huwwarah was permanently settled. Some of the older stone buildings in the village suggest the mid 1800s. However, mud houses must have existed long before that, based on the number of generations the elderly reported through oral tradition. It is expected that there lived at least 12 generations so far in Huwwarah, making the estimated date of settlement between 1700 and 1750 CE (AD). CE is an abbreviation which can have the following meanings: Capillary electrophoresis the CE mark is a stylized CE placed on products to signify conformance with European Union regulations. ... Look up AD, ad-, and ad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The village also contains numerous sites were some coins from Hellenistic or Roman periods were found. Furthermore, there is an agricultural section of east of Huwwarah called Dhahr El Muqhur (roofs of the caves) which is apprently a necropolis to a nearby settlement that may have been the village itself. This makes perfect sense in view of the fact that Huwwarah is in the heart of the area that contained the Decapolis union of ten famous trade town the most famous of which is Jerash and Gadara (Um Qais). The term Hellenistic (established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen) in the history of the ancient world is used to refer to the shift from a culture dominated by ethnic Greeks, however scattered geographically, to a culture dominated by Greek-speakers of whatever ethnicity, and from the political dominance... Area under Roman control  Roman Republic  Roman Empire  Western Empire  Eastern Empire Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a city-state founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... The oval forum and cardo of Gerasa (Jerash) The Decapolis (Greek: deka, ten; polis, city) was a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Syria and Judea (renamed Palestine in 135 AD). ... The oval forum and main street of Roman Jerash, with modern Jerash rising behind them Map of the Decapolis showing location of Gerasa (Jerash) Jerash (ancient Antioch-on-the-Chrysorhoas, also known as Gerasa) was a city of the Graceo-Roman Decapolis, its ruins now located in the Gilead region... This entry incorporates text from the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia with some modernisation. ... Umm Qais, Jordan Umm Qais (Arabic: ‎) is a town in Jordan located on the site of the ruined Hellenistic-Roman city of Gadara (Hebrew: ‎, gad´a-ra) (Greek: Γάδαρα, also transliterated Gádara). ...

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Huwwarah architecture

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External links

• Huwwarah on Wikimapia