Naour

Naour (Arabic: ناعور‎) Na’our is region number 26 in Greater Amman Municipality , located at the west side of the Capital, with 26 neighborhoods or residential concentrations. The land space of Na’our amounts to 87 KM2, i.e.5,19% of the total landscape of GAM. Its population is 100,000 inhabitants, and it is bordered by six regions.^[1] .The down town of Naour was established by the Circassians ( Adyghe) Immigrants who were expelled from their homeland Cherkessia(Circassia) 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 in 1900 was about 55 families descending from different Circassians tribes like the Abzakh, shapsugs, Bazadough and a few from the Kabarday . They established its big Mosque in the center of the town ,after building their homes,& built elementary school, grain mills, water springs, roads, fields, gardens, shops, carpentry shops& blacksmith shops.

References

1. ^ http://www.ammancity.gov.jo/en/interactive/districts.asp?dist_id=32&sub_id=7