Az-Zabayer
Az-Zabayer
الزباير | |
|---|---|
Village | |
Az-Zabayer is located in Syria Az-Zabayer Az-Zabayer Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates: 32°58′56′′N 36°17′56′′E / 32.98222°N 36.29889°E / 32.98222; 36.29889 | |
| PAL | 272/266 |
| Country | Syria |
| Governorate | Daraa |
| District | Izraa |
| Subdistrict | Izraa |
| Population (2004 census)[1] | |
• Total | 471 |
Az-Zabayer (Arabic: الزباير) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Izraa District in the Daraa Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), az-Zabayer had a population of 471 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.
History
[edit ]In 1596, the village appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Zabira as-Sarqiyya and was part of the nahiya of Bani Kilab in the Hauran Sanjak. It had a Muslim population consisting of 22 households and 8 bachelors, in addition to 2 Christian households; a total of 32 "taxable units". The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on wheat (4800 a.), barley (1080 a.), summer crops (1120 a.), goats and beehives (200 a.), in addition to "occasional revenues" (100 a.); a total of 7,300 akçe. All of the revenue went to a Waqf.[2]
In 1838, ez-Zebireh was noted as a ruin, located "in the Lejah", west of Dama.[3]
Religious buildings
[edit ]- Mosque
References
[edit ]- ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Deprecated link archived 2013年01月12日 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 210
- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 156
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.
