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Na'our

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Also known as Naur

Naour (), also called Naur, is region number 26 in the Greater Amman Municipality. It is located on the west side of the capital, and comprises 26 neighborhoods or residential areas. Naour comprises approximately 87 km2, i.e., 5.19%, of the total landscape of Greater Amman Municipality. Its population is 50,000 and it is bordered by six regions.

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Place details

Locality
ام القطين
Region
عمان
Country
الأردن
Population
0

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Na'our
Settlement.settlement_type
District
Settlement.image_skyline
Amman district 26.png
Settlement.imagesize
200px
Settlement.image_caption
Na'our nature
Settlement.image_flag
Flag of Greater Naour Municipality.png
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Governorate
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Amman Governorate
Settlement.leader_title
Mayor
Settlement.leader_name
Abdul Halim Kilani, Talal Alsamour
Settlement.established_title
Founded
Settlement.established_date
1900
Settlement.established_title2
Municipality
Settlement.area_total_km2
87
Settlement.population_urban
50,000
Settlement.elevation_m
777–850
Settlement.elevation_ft
2,564

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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Archaeology
  • See also
  • References

Naour (), also called Naur, is region number 26 in the Greater Amman Municipality. It is located on the west side of the capital, and comprises 26 neighborhoods or residential areas. Naour comprises approximately 87 km2, i.e., 5.19%, of the total landscape of Greater Amman Municipality. Its population is 50,000 and it is bordered by six regions.

==History== The down town of Naour was established by the Circassian immigrants who migrated from their homeland Circassia (Cherkessia) in the North Caucasus in 1900. The Circassian immigration was one of the latest Circassian immigrations which started in 1864 as a result of the Russian army control over Circassia after about 150 years of war. The number of the Circassian families which established Naour was about 55 families, descending from different Circassians tribes like the Abzakh, Shapsugs, Bazadough and a few from the Kabarday. They established a big mosque in the center of the town, after building their homes and built elementary school, grain mills, water springs, roads, fields, gardens, shops, carpentry shops and blacksmith shops.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Na'our” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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