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For places in Iran, see Barazin, Iran. Place in Amman, Jordan
Barazin
Barazin is located in JordanBarazinBarazinLocation in Jordan
Coordinates: 31°47′N 35°52′E / 31.783°N 35.867°E / 31.783; 35.867
Country Jordan
GovernorateAmman
Time zoneUTC + 2

Barazin, also spelled Barazayn (Arabic: برازين), is a town in the Amman Governorate of north-western Jordan.

History

Modern Barazin was founded in the 1860s when its lands were granted by the Ottomans to a Beni Sakhr chieftain, Fandi Al-Fayez, and his son Sattam, the father of Mithqal Al-Fayez, who also became a major landowner in Transjordan. The village began to be cultivated during the family's ownership, before the settlement of Madaba in 1880 by local Christians. Barazin is mentioned as one of nine Bedouin-owned plantation settlements in the Balqa area of Transjordan in 1883 where settlement had been largely confined to the town of Salt during the preceding two centuries. In the beginning of the 20th century, villagers from Lifta near Jerusalem purchased land in Barazin. In 1932, Mithqal offered the Jewish Agency a mortgage of his lands in Barazin in return for a loan. He needed the financing as Jordan was struck with an unprecedented drought in conjunction with the effects of the Great Depression, urging the major players in Jordan to act to save the country from literal starvation. Mithqal ultimately got funding from Abdulhamid Shoman personally, and acquired the first tractors in Jordan, which tripled grain and other essential foodstuffs production that year, a lot of which was grown in Barazin.

References

  1. Maplandia world gazetteer
  2. Fischbach 2011, p. 15.
  3. Abujaber 1999, p. 140.
  4. Rogan 1994, p. 47, note 41.
  5. Fischbach 2011, p. 59.
  6. Alon 2016, p. 121.

Bibliography

Jordan Amman Governorate
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Na'our District
Hisban
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Al-Na'our
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Umm al-Basatin
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Al-Quwaysimah District
Al-Quwaysimah
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Sahab District
Sahab
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