Ain Al-Basha
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Governorate | Balqa |
District | Ain Al Basha |
Ain Al-Basha is a Jordanian population area that is the center of the Ain Al Basha District in Al Balqa governorate, on the road between Sweileh and Jerash, and it is connected to the village of Safout with Al Baqa'a camp road and the city of Al-Salt.
Name
Pasha is a Turkish title that was granted to senior military personnel, and those with high civil positions, meaning the head or the president. Ain al-Basha was called by this name because Ibrahim Pasha came down to the eye of the water in it while passing through the area.[1]
Population
They are the population of the city of Ain Al-Basha between (70 - 80 thousand) distributed among multiple neighborhoods such as Prince Ali neighborhood, Qutaiba neighborhood, Al-Balad and Al-Zahra neighborhood, Umm Safatin, Western Shuwaihi neighborhood, and Imam Al-Shafi’i neighborhood.[2] It has several housing, such as equestrian housing, urban development housing, and Qaqish housing. While the population of the Ain al-Basha district is around 300,000.
Economy
The townspeople depend on jobs, agriculture and trade, and there are 22 (twenty-two factories such as the dairy industry, aluminum, paper bags, ceramics and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
Climate
Hot, dry, rainy summers, cold winters, and mild spring and autumn periods.
Education
There are a number of government schools for both sexes from elementary to high school and in various academic branches and 12 kindergartens for children and 9 nursery centers and more than 15 private schools, the most famous of which are Al Majd, Sama Amman, creativity and achievement schools.
There is near the Ain Al-Basha Philadelphia University (Jordan) on the road to Jerash and the Applied Science Private University in Shafa Badran east of Ain Al-Basha in addition to Al-Ahliyya Amman University to the southwest of Ain Al-Basha.