Namir (Arabic: نمر, romanized: Nāmr, also transliterated Namr or Nimer), is a village in southern Syria, administratively belonging to the Izra District of the Daraa Governorate. In the 2004 census by the Central Bureau of Statistics, Namir had a population of 7,941.[1]
Namir
نمر | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Namir | |
| Coordinates: 33°1′20″N 36°1′47″E / 33.02222°N 36.02972°E | |
| Grid position | 246/269 PAL |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Daraa |
| District | Izra |
| Subdistrict | Jasim |
| Population (2004 census)[1] | |
• Total | 7,941 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Location
editNamir is located in the Nuqrah, the wide plain of the southern Hauran. It is situated south of Aqraba and al-Harra and north of Nawa. It lies near the southern foot of Tell al-Hara (the highest elevation in Hauran plains), east of the Nahr al-Allan stream and west of the Lajat volcanic field.[2]
History
editNamir, according to Biblical accounts, where it is named 'Nimre' or 'Beth Nimrah', was a fortified center lying amid sheep pastures and surrounded by meadows. These accounts hold it was destroyed in a conflict in the 13th century BCE and then reconstructed in 1230 BCE by a grandson of Jacob.[2]
The village was placed by the 10th-century historian al-Mas'udi a few miles to the north of Jabiya and Nawa in the district of Jawlan (Golan Heights). Namir was used by the Zengid emir Nur al-Din as an army encampment for his military campaigns to Egypt in 1168 and 1170.[3]
Ottoman period
editIn 1596 Namir appeared under the name of Namar in the Ottoman tax registers being in the nahiya of Jaydur in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 36 households and 20 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat (12,000 akçe), barley (2,070 a.), summer crops (930 a.), goats and beehives (600 a.); in addition to "occasional revenues" (540 a.); a total of 16,140 akçe. 7/24 of the revenue went to a waqf.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ a b Elisséeff 1993, p. 946.
- ^ Elisséeff 1993, p. 947.
- ^ Hütteroth & Abdulfattah 1977, p. 208.
Bibliography
edit- Elisséeff, N. (1993). "Namāra—3. Modern Nāmir (Namr, Nimr) al-Hawāʾ". In Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W. P. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume VII: Mif–Naz. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 944–947. ISBN 978-90-04-09419-2.
- Hütteroth, W.-D.; Abdulfattah, K. (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.