Yarqa

Az-Zarqa is the capital of Zarqa Governorate in Jordan. Its call manner the blue. It had a population of 635,one hundred sixty population in 2015. Although inhabited because the 1st century, the town of Zarqa was established with the aid of immigrants from the Caspian Sea location at the start of the 20th century.

The first settlement in the metropolis changed into installed in 1902 by means of Chechen immigrants who have been displaced from the wars among the Ottoman and Russian Empires. They settled along the Zarqa River. At that time a station on the Hejaz Railway changed into built in the new agreement. The railway station grew to become Zarqa into an crucial hub. On 10 April 1905, the Ottoman governor issued a decree that allowed the Chechen immigrants to very own lands which they settled on. The populace then fast grew in length. On 18 November 1928, the new Jordanian authorities issued a decree to establish the primary municipal council for Zarqa.