Anjara Explained

Official Name:Anjara
Native Name:Arabic: عنجرة
Settlement Type:City
Pushpin Map:Jordan
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Jordan
Subdivision Type1:Governorate
Subdivision Name1:Ajloun Governorate
Population As Of:2015
Population Footnotes:[1] [2]
Population Urban:17,634
Coordinates:32.3069°N 35.7536°W
Grid Position:221/190
Elevation M:900-1230
Timezone:GMT +2
Timezone Dst:+3
Area Code:+962(2)

Anjara (Arabic: عنجرة) is an ancient town located at northern Jordan in the Ajloun Governorate. The city is situated 4 kilometers to the south of Ajloun, and 73 kilometers to the north of the Jordanian capital Amman.

Etymology

The name of Anjara is composed of two words: Ain (spring well in Arabic) + Jara meaning running. The full name would mean the "running spring".

History

In biblical legend, Anjara has its assertions where Jesus and His Mother Mary passed through here and lived in a cave during their journey to the ten cities of Decapolis.

In 1596, during the Ottoman Empire, 'Anjara was noted in the census as being located in the nahiya of Ajloun in the liwa of Ajloun. It had a population of 27 Muslim households and 4 Muslim bachelors, in addition to 13 Christian households and 1 Christian bachelor. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 10,000 akçe.[3]

In 1838 'Anjara's inhabitants were predominantly Sunni Muslims and Greek Christians.[4]

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 3,163 inhabitants in 'Anjara,[5] of whom 719 were Christians.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Population of anjara . WolframAlpha . 2012-06-29 .
  2. Web site: Anjara City, Ajloun Governorate, Jordan . 2022-05-25 . www.mindat.org.
  3. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 162
  4. [Eli Smith|Smith]
  5. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 14
  6. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, pp. 115–116
  7. Web site: Our Lady of the Mount, Anjara, Jordan – a church and a story that reveals more of charism IVE — The Way of Beauty The Way of Beauty. thewayofbeauty.org. en-US. 2017-06-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20170617110447/http://thewayofbeauty.org/2016/04/our-lady-of-the-mount-anjara-jordan-a-church-and-a-story-that-reveals-more-of-charism-ive/. 2017-06-17. dead.
  8. Web site: Christian pilgrimage to 'Our Lady of the Mountain' grotto in Anjara marked Al-Bushra. al-bushra.org. en-US. 2017-06-05.
  9. Web site: Ajlun And Anjara . 2017-01-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170116145227/https://www.nebotours.com/ajlun-and-anjara . 2017-01-16 . dead .