Samma ( ar, صمّا) is a village in northern Jordan, located 80 kilometers north of the capital Amman and about 18 km West of the city

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. It is perched on a hilltop above sea level overlooking

Jordan Valley The Jordan Valley ( ar, غور الأردن, ''Ghor al-Urdun''; he, עֵמֶק הַיַרְדֵּן, ''Emek HaYarden'') forms part of the larger Jordan Rift Valley. Unlike most other river valleys, the term "Jordan Valley" often applies just to ...

and the

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. It lies in the Al-Taybeh Department is one of the nine departments that constitute the

Irbid Governorate Irbid or Irbed ( ar, إربد) is a governorates of Jordan, governorate in Jordan, located north of Amman, the country's capital. The capital of the governorate is the city of Irbid. The governorate has the second largest population in Jordan afte ...

, It covers 13.76 km² and has a population of 15761 people (as of 2015).

History

In 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named as ''Samma'', situated in the ''

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'' (subdistrict) of Bani Kinana, part of the

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. It had 19 households and 13 bachelors; all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products; including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees/fruit trees, goats and bee-hives; in addition to occasional revenues. The total tax was 4,000 akçe. In 1838 Samma's inhabitants were predominantly

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s and

Greek Christians The term Greek Orthodox Church (Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, ''Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía'', ) has two meanings. The broader meaning designates "the entire body of Orthodox (Chalcedonian) Christianity, sometimes also call ...

. In 1885,

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visited the village and wrote about it in his book "Northern Ajlun within the Decapolis": In 1961 the population of Samma was 1,649 inhabitants.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p
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Population

Depending on The Population and Housing Census report released in late February 2016: *Population: 15761 *Male: 8048 *Female: 7713 *Families: 3113

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* * * {{Irbid Governorate Villages in Irbid governorate

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