Malka

History

The town overlooks the ancient Roman city of Jadara, which was one of the ten cities that made up the Decapolis union. In August 636 the Battle of Yarmouk took place there between the Rashidun Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire which resulted in the Muslim conquest of the Levant. In 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named as Malaka, situated in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Kinana, part of the Sanjak of Hawran. It had 27 households and 15 bachelors; all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products; including wheat (4200 a.), barley (900 a.), summer crops (640 a.), fruit trees (1200 a.), and goats and bee-hives (140 a.). The total tax was 7,500 akçe. In 1838 Malka's inhabitants were predominantly Sunni Muslim. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,634 inhabitants in Malka.

Most-observed species

• White-spectacled Bulbul

  Pycnonotus xanthopygos (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1833) · Aves
  1,333
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  1,283
• Graceful Prinia

  Prinia gracilis (Lichtenstein, 1823) · Aves
  1,233
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,212
• Barn Swallow

  Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,211
• Laughing Dove

  Spilopelia senegalensis (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  1,164
• Rock Pigeon

  Columba livia J.F.Gmelin, 1789 · Aves
  1,055
• Hooded Crow

  Corvus cornix Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  1,012

Most recent

• M 4.1 — 2023-02-07
  Dead Sea region
• M 3.7 — 2022-01-23
  4 km ENE of Kafr Mi?r, Israel
• M 4.1 — 2022-01-22
  4 km E of Taiyiba, Israel
• M 2.9 — 2018-07-27
  1 km ESE of Migdal, Israel
• M 2.9 — 2018-07-22
  9 km E of Tiberias, Israel
• M 4.7 — 2018-07-04
  2 km NNE of Giv‘at Avni, Israel