In 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named as Zubiya, situated in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Kura, part of the Sanjak of Ajlun.

The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products; including wheat, barley, olive trees, goats and bee-hives, in addition to occasional revenues.

The Zoubia Natural Reserve consists of rolling hills in a Mediterranean climate, covered in evergreen oaks, as well as strawberry and pistachio trees, among others.

Fallow deer, mountain gazelles, stone martens, jackals, red foxes, striped hyenas, Persian squirrels, porcupines, wild boars, mountain hares, and wolves inhabit this area.

[citation needed] The Old Village is located on the slope of a high mountain, and contains traces of old houses and castles that were left by Byzantine, Roman, Umayyad, and Ottoman civilizations.