Natifah is a village in
Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...
approximately 2 km south-west of
Irbid.
History
In 1596 it appeared in the
Ottoman tax registers named as ''Natifa'', situated in the ''
nahiya
A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...
'' (subdistrict) of Bani al-Asar, part of the
Sanjak of Hawran
Sanjaks (liwāʾ) (plural form: alwiyāʾ)
* Armenian: նահանգ (''nahang''; meaning "province")
* Bulgarian: окръг (''okrǔg''; meaning "county", "province", or "region")
* el, Διοίκησις (''dioikēsis'', meaning "province" ...
. It had 17 households and 9 bachelors; all
Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products; including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards/fruit trees, goats and bee-hives. The total tax was 5,500
akçe.
In 1838 Natifah's inhabitants were predominantly
Sunni Muslims.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 451 inhabitants in Natifa.
[Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p]
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Villages in Irbid governorate