KARAK — Residents of the southern town of Karak, 130km south of Amman, have
criticized the municipality for selecting "strange" names for the
streets in the city and surrounding smaller towns under its jurisdiction.
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Instead of Al-Maqahi (coffee houses) Street and the Maldives Street, for
example, they want the roads to be named after local or national figures, other
Jordanian cities, and sites with historical value.
Activists and residents have taken matters into their hands in some
cases and wiped off the names from the plates.
A source in the municipality of Karak explained that the naming project,
which involved 1,500 locations in its first phase, was carried out and approved
by the dissolved municipal council, as part of a USAID-funded project related
to the decentralization program.
The source said that the controversial names would be replaced with
others more acceptable to the people.
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