Aydoun

Aydoun ايدون
Town
Aydoun Location in Jordan
Coordinates: 32°25′55″N 35°51′30″E
Grid position	231/212
Country	Jordan
Governorate	Irbid Governorate
Time zone	UTC + 2

Aydoun (Arabic: ايدون, alternatively Adun or Idoun) is the name of a city in Irbid Governorate in Jordan. Some writers associate the town with the ancient city of Dium, one of the cities of the Decapolis, but this is disputed. It had a population of 18,586 as of 2004.

History

In 1596, during the Ottoman Empire, Aydoun was noted in the census as being located in the nahiya of Bani al-Asar in the liwa of Hawran. It had a population of 32 households and 21 bachelors; all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops/vineyards/fruit trees, goats and beehives; a total of 10,215 akçe.

In 1838 Aydoun's inhabitants were predominantly Sunni Muslims, and the village was noted as located in the Beni 'Öbeid area.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,700 inhabitants in Aidun.

Famous people from Aydoun (Idoun)

• HE Major General Qassem Pasha Al-Nasser, Attorney General Mahmoud Hanandeh, Prime minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh, Abdullatif Al Nasser, Mahmoud Al Nasser, Idrees Al Nasser

Bibliography

• Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
• Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
• Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.