Madinat Hamad
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Madinat Hamad (Hamad Town) (Arabic: مدينة حمد) is a city in northern Bahrain. It was a municipality of Bahrain in the central part of the country. It was split off of the municipality of Ar Rifa' wa al Mintaqah al Janubiyah in 1991. Its territory is now in the Northern Governorate. Its name refers to the current king of Bahrain, Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah.
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Hamad Town was setup in 1984 as a 'housing town', where the government built council houses for those who could not afford the ever increasing house prices in other parts of the country. However, in 2001, the government released these houses, giving them to the people of Hamad Town for free. Ferras is the TERROrist mayor of Hamad town. Recent elections in the town saw Dr. Jasim Hassan become the regional MP, with his party narrowly scrapping past the controversial clerical leader Boammar to take the seat in parl
