The Balqa (Arabic: البلقاء; transliteration: al-Balqāʾ), known colloquially as the Balga, is a geographic region in central Jordan generally defined as...

Balqa may refer to the following places: Balqa (region), the central highland region of Jordan where Amman is situated. Balqa Governorate, one of the...

Balqa' (Arabic: البلقاء Al Balqā’) is one of the governorates of Jordan. It is located northwest of Amman, Jordan's capital. The governorate has the fourth...

started due to a feud between the Adwan and the Bani Sakher tribes of the Balqa region led by Sultan Adwan and Mithqal Al-Fayez respectively. Mithqal was favored...

Herbert Samuel wrote that the area was "left politically derelict"; the region was extremely poor, sparsely populated, and widely considered ungovernable...

and 7,500 according to the sources, were initially dispatched to the Balqa region east and northeast of the Dead Sea. In May 634 Yazid and the other main...

all the region east of the Jordan River. Gilead is situated in modern-day Jordan, corresponding roughly to the Irbid, Ajloun, Jerash and Balqa Governorates...

on the old main highway leading from Amman to Jerusalem. Situated in the Balqa highland, about 790–1,100 metres above sea level, the city is built in the...

present-day Lebanon and territories east of the Jordan River known as the al-Balqa region. Jund Filastin (جُـنْـد فِـلَـسْـطِـيْـن, "military district of Palestine")...

the Shia. According to al-Baladhuri, Abu Sufyan owned a village in the Balqa region, which formed part of the Damascus district. The 13th-century Syrian...