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Sweileh area

Field	Value
official_name	Sweileh
native_name	صويلح
image_skyline	Amman district 16.png
imagesize	200px
pushpin_map	Jordan
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	[[Image:Flag of Jordan.svg	25px]] Jordan
subdivision_type1	Governorate
subdivision_name1	Amman Governorate
leader_title1
established_title	Settled
established_date	1906
established_title2
established_title3
unit_pref	Imperial
area_total_km2
area_land_km2
population_as_of	2015
population_total	151,016
population_blank1_title	Ethnicities
population_blank2_title	Religions
timezone	UTC + 2
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postal_code_type

Sweileh (, alternatively spelled Suwaylih, Swaylih or Swaileh) is district number sixteen in Amman, Jordan out of twenty-seven. It lies to the north of the city center. It was founded by Chechen settlers in 1906 during Ottoman rule. It had a population of 151,016 in the 2015 census. The town is known for having a good climate throughout the year, it is one of the few districts of Amman that sees snow during winter due to its high altitude. The cultivation of olives and grapes, heavy industries, such as auto assembly, steel, and cement, make up the local economy. Today, it is considered one of Amman's most populated districts since it has the University of Jordan and is a connection point to other cities such as Salt, Irbid and Jarash.

History

Sweileh was founded as an agricultural village called Ayn Suwaylih in 1906 by Circassian and Chechen settlers who were moved to the area by the Ottomans from other parts of the Empire. It was the fourth village in the Balqa region to be settled by Chechen refugees. On 3 May 1907 the settlement was raided by 2,000 Adwan, Abbad, Balqawiya and Bani Hasan tribesmen and townspeople from Salt and Fuheis in response to an earlier quarrel in which a Bedouin herder was wounded attempting to graze livestock on wheat fields claimed by the Chechens. The raid ended in the deaths of eleven settlers and the wounding of fifteen others, while a similar number of raiders were killed. All of the village's livestock and the entire contents of twenty-eight dwelling were stolen in the raid. The Ottoman authorities arrested sixty people allegedly involved the raid, including several tribal chiefs, dismissed the governor of the Salt kaza (district), and opened a wide-scale reparations project to compensate the Chechens. The population of the village according to the 1915 Ottoman census was 745. In the 1940s a road connecting Amman with Jabal Ajlun in the northeast of the country was opened through Sweileh; the new road was built for commercial and security purposes.

Notable people

Hamza Arsbi, businessman

References

Bibliography

References

"The General Census - 2015". Department of Population Statistics.

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