Bani Jamra () is a village in the north-west of
Bahrain
Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia. Situated on the Persian Gulf, it comprises a small archipelago of 50 natural islands and an additional 33 artificial islands, centered on Bahrain Island, which mak ...
. It lies west of the capital
Manama
Manama ( ', Bahrani Arabic, Bahrani pronunciation: ) is the capital and List of cities in Bahrain, largest city of Bahrain, with an approximate population of 297,502 as of 2012. Long an important trading center in the Persian Gulf, Manama is ...
, east of the coastal village of
Budaiya
Al Budaiya () is a coastal town located in the northwestern region of Bahrain Island, in the Northern Governorate of the Kingdom of Bahrain. It neighbors the villages of Diraz and Bani Jamra.
History
The town was founded by the Dawasiri tribe, ...
. It is administered under the
Northern Governorate
The Northern Governorate () is one of the four governorates of Bahrain. It includes parts of the former municipalities of Al Mintaqah al Gharbiyah, Al Mintaqah al Wusta, Al Mintaqah al Shamaliyah, Jidd Haffs and Madinat Hamad.
Settlemen ...
.
Before the
discovery of oil in Bahrain, most of inhabitants were involved in
farming
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...
, especially
date palm
''Phoenix dactylifera'', commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering-plant species in the palm family Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet #Fruits, fruit called dates. The species is widely cultivated across North Africa, northern A ...
s. Bani Jamra is also famous as a center of traditional
fabric weaving, a rapidly dying art.
History
In
J. G. Lorimer's
Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf (1908), he writes that the village consisted of 50 huts occupied by the
Baharna
The Bahārna (, or ), are an ethnoreligious group of Shia Muslim Arabs indigenous to the historical region of Bahrain. They are generally regarded to be the original inhabitants of Eastern Arabia. They inhabited the area even before the arrival ...
, whom were mostly farmers and weavers. There were an estimated 1,500 palm trees in the village.
Notable people
*
Mullah Attiya al-Jamri, Bahraini
poet
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*
Abdul Amir al-Jamri,
Bahraini opposition leader
*
Mansoor Al-Jamri, editor-in-chief of
Al-Wasat
References
External links
Bani Jamra Cloth WeavingBani Jamra website
Populated places in the Northern Governorate, Bahrain
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