Samma al-Baradan
Samma al-Baradan
صما البردان Samma al-Bardan | |
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Village | |
  Samma al-Baradan Location within Syria | |
| Coordinates: 32°24′51″N 36°46′07″E / 32.41417°N 36.76861°E | |
| PAL | 316/203 |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Suwayda |
| District | Salkhad |
| Subdistrict | Salkhad |
| Population (2004 census)[1] | |
• Total | 1,296 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Samma al-Baradan (Arabic: صما البردان) is a village situated in the Salkhad District of Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Samma al-Baradan had a population of 1,296 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.[2]
History
[edit]In 1596, it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Samma (dir nazd Kafr Taman), as part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Malik as-Sadir, in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 20 households and 10 bachelors. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat (6000 a.), barley (900 a.), summer crops (1600 a.) goats and beehives (300 a.), in addition to "occasional revenues" (200 a.); the taxes totalled 9,000 akçe.[3]
In 1838, Eli Smith noted it as Summa el-Buradan, a ruin located east of Salkhad.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Deprecated link archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Suwayda Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ↑ "Druze communities in the Middle East". British Druze Society. Archived from the original on September 11, 2011.
- ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah 1977, p. 211
- ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 160
Bibliography
[edit]- 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.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
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