طواحين السكر

In northern Karak, Al-Balou' stands as one of the most mysterious and intriguing archaeological sites in Jordan, where Moabite civilization blends with Pharaonic inscriptions and ancient walls in a place that holds secrets thousands of years old.

في قلب الكرك، تقف سرايا دار الحاكمية كأحد أهم المباني التاريخية التي شهدت مرحلة الحكم العثماني، حيث كانت مركزًا إداريًا نابضًا بالحياة وتفاصيل الدولة في أواخر القرن التاسع عشر

The moment you started your trip to Iraq a great solemn rhythm touches your soul down to that village, it feels like you are driving uphill but you actually going down the valley.

Until one reaches the springs that flow gently with the bones of those who perished in this place before more than ninety years ago.

Over there, after the exhaustion you suffered to reach Iraq village in Karak and start a new magical novel, with a real characters, events and details…all these elements of the novel are set in that village, surrounded by three mountains like a small version of Interlaken town, while the only access point is when you see over there..to the west Yes! It is the dead sea!!

Iraq village whose name came from (Tar Ain), which in Aramaic means the place of water… actually one of the springs of the village still holds that name (Ain Tar’in), also in the old historical writing in which the village was mentioned; it was in the mosaic map as it was mentioned as Taryas, then and after the Muslim conquest its name had changed into Iraq, as a bit quick information; dictionaries indicate that Iraq means a place with a lot oftrees and water or the place with lots of water or place close to the shores. All these meanings corresponds to the geographical reality of the village.