ar-Ramtha

Ar-Ramtha is a city situated in the a ways northwest of Jordan. It covers 40km2 in a flat place 30 km north-east of Jordan River and Irbid. In the 2017, ar-Ramtha had a population of approximately 164,211, making it the 11th biggest metropolis in Jordan, and the second in Irbid Governorate, and the town has grown because then. The solid weather in ar-Ramtha and its surrounding regions attracted many animals to stay in neighborhood of ar-Ramtha, as well the simple conditions for managing a solid lengthy lifestyles there attracted human beings to make those areas their earliest choices to gather in agencies of hunters and to live in rocky caves.

Artifacts and graves inside the region display that ar-Ramtha has been inhabited because the Bronze Age, however the lack of observe of the area offers us no genuine statistics about when humans had decided on the land for residing. Ar-Ramtha is named after a local desolate tract plant, al-ramath. During its career through the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire, the city became called Ramatha.