Al-Hamma appeared in Ottoman tax registers compiled in 1596 under the name of Hammat Jur, in the Nahiyas of Gawr, of the Liwa Ajloun.
At the time of the Ottoman Empire, Northern Jordan was a sanjak (administrative division) of the town of Ajloun.
Al- Ayasrah played a main rule in the campaign of Prince Ali Fakhr-al-Din II in 1612, when he led a military campaign on the orders of his father to pursue Farroukh Sandzak Ajloun to Karak and Nablus.
The story told: One day, Hanna was out herding his cattle in the mountains of Ajloun when the rain came down heavily.
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Jerash Local Government It was one of seven local governments (Irbid, Ajloun, Salt, Jerash, Karak, Al Taibah, Deir Yousef) founded in the Transjordan after the fall of the Arab government in Damascus following the Battle of Maysaloun.