Sahab

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سحاب
Sahab
Sahab (Jordan)
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Coordinates 31 ° 51 ′ 45 "  N , 36 ° 0 ′ 24"  E Coordinates: 31 ° 51 ′ 45 "  N , 36 ° 0 ′ 24"  E
Basic data
Country Jordan

Governorate

Amman
ISO 3166-2 JO-AM
height 830 m
surface 12 km²
Residents 169,434 (2015)
density 14,119.5  Ew. / km²
politics
mayor Abbas Al Maharmeh

Sahab ( Arabic سحاب, DMG Saḥāb ) is a Jordanian industrial city with 43,909 inhabitants (census) in 2004. In 2015 approximately 169,000 inhabitants (census) lived in the city. It is located in the Amman governorate southwest of the capital Amman , to whose agglomeration Sahab belongs.

archeology

Anthropoid sarcophagus lid from a tomb in Sahab, ca.10th century BC. BC (Amman, Archaeological Museum)

Already in the Copper Age there was a settlement in what is now Sahab's area. During the rule of the Hyksos , the area fell under Egyptian control and was expanded into a glacis - type fortification .

At the time of the New Kingdom , Sahab might even have risen to become an administrative place. The city walls of Sahab were built in the first half of the 15th century BC. Built in BC. To lay their foundations, a deep trench had been dug through the older layers of settlement, the walls of which were lined with stones. The settlement surrounded by the wall ring has a regular, oval base, the longitudinal axis of which ran in a north-south direction. The oldest found object was a seal impression from the time of Thutmose III. on a typical Late Bronze Age clay jug. The most recent finds were pieces of Mycenaean imported ceramics. Sahab was therefore continuously populated until the 13th century. The late Bronze Age city had a large public building with an external wall exposed to 17 meters and a kind of tower.

Several graves were also found in Sahab in the 20th century that were dated to the Iron Age . An outstanding single piece from grave A in Sahab (Iron Age I) is an anthropoid sarcophagus lid in an Egyptian style (photo).

Modern history

Numerous Bedouins from Egypt settled in the urban area of ​​Sahab in the second half of the 19th century, creating the modern city.

About half of the inhabitants of Sahab are Palestinian refugees (al-Wihdat Refugee Camp). When Israel intervened in Lebanon in 1978, numerous Palestinians and Jordanians wanted to fight alongside the PLO, and demonstrations took place particularly in Sahab demanding that these volunteer groups be allowed to travel to Lebanon.

Industry

The city is heavily influenced by industry. There are more than 400 factories in the city. In addition, with the 253 hectare Abdullah II Ibn Al-Hussein industrial park, Jordan's largest industrial park to date is located in Sahab. In 2016 there were over 443 companies with over 14,000 employees.

Trivia

In 2016, Sahab set the world record for the highest number of participants in a jointly formed stamp image. A total of 1,015 people took part.

literature

  • William Foxwell Albright : An Anthropoid Clay Coffin from Sahab in Transjordan . In: American Journal of Archeology , 1932, pp. 292-306.
  • Gerald Lankester Harding : An Iron-Age Tomb at Sahab . In: Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine 1948, pp. 22-30.
  • Rafik W. Dajani: A late bronze-iron age tomb excavated at Sahab, 1968 . In: Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan , 1970, pp. 29-34.
  • Mo'awiyah Ibrahim: Archaeological Excavation at Sahab . In: Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan , 1972, pp. 93-95.
  • Mo'awiyah Ibrahim: Third Season of Excavations at Sahab . In: Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan , 1973, pp. 55-61, 187-198.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.dos.gov.jo/dos_home_a/main/population/census2015/Persons/Persons_3.2.pdf
  2. ↑ https://www.tt.com/artikel/13978908/jordanischer-politiker-ein-viertel-des-staatsbudgets-fuer-fluechtlinge
  3. ↑ http://books.openedition.org/ifpo/4885?lang=en
  4. ^ Jordan River 'never border or obstacle' between west, east banks - scholar . In: Jordan Times . June 6, 2017 ( jordantimes.com [accessed May 26, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Mo'awiyah Ibrahim Zeidan Kafafi: Middle and Late Bronze Age . In: Siegfried Mittmann et al. (Ed.): The Royal Route. 9,000 years of art and culture in Jordan . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1987, pp. 86-88.
  6. ↑ http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317603/1/259314.pdf
  7. ↑ Siegfried Mittmann et al. (Ed.): The Royal Route. 9,000 years of art and culture in Jordan . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1987, p. 124f.
  8. ^ Joseph A. Massad: Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan . Columbia University Press, New York 2001, p. 243.
  9. ^ Joseph Massad: Producing the Palestinian as Other. Jordan and the Palestinians. In: Roger Heacock (ed.): Temps et espaces en Palestine: Flux et résistances identitaires . Presses de l'Ifpo, Beirut 2008, pp. 273ff., Here 285.
  10. ↑ Mobile lab measuring air pollution good to go . In: Jordan Times . August 28, 2017 ( jordantimes.com [accessed May 23, 2018]).
  11. ↑ http://www.jiec.com/uploaded/annual_report/1502349382.pdf
  12. ↑ http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/sahab-wins-guinness-world-record-image-peace