Al-Sahwah
Village in Daraa, Syria
Al-Sahwah
السهوة
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Village
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Coordinates: 32°35′46″N 36°22′4″E / 32.59611°N 36.36778°E / 32.59611; 36.36778 | |
Grid position | 278/222 |
Country | Syria |
Governorate | Daraa |
District | Daraa |
Subdistrict | Al-Musayfirah |
Occupation | Syrian Arab Army |
Population
(2004)
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• Total | 3,950 |
Time zone | UTC+2 ( EET ) |
• Summer ( DST ) | UTC+3 ( EEST ) |
Al-Sahwah ( Arabic : السهوة , also spelled el-Sahoa or Sahweh ); also known as Sahwat al-Qamh or Sehwet el-Kamh is a village in southern Syria , administratively part of the Daraa Governorate , located east of Daraa . Nearby localities include al-Jiza to the southwest, Ghasm to the south, Maaraba, Daraa to the southeast, Umm Walad to the northeast, al-Musayfirah to the north and Kahil to the west. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics , al-Sahwah had a population of 3,950 in the 2004 census, making it the least populous locality in the al-Musayfirah nahiyah ("subdistrict"). [1]
History
In 1596 Al-Sahwah appeared in the Ottoman tax registers under the name of Sahut al-Qamh , as being part of the nahiya of Butayna in the Qada Hauran . It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 9 households and 4 bachelors. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat , barley , summer crops, goats and/or beehives; a total of 3,300 akçe . [2]
There are ruins of an ancient tower and a church in al-Sahwah. Although the buildings are of some significance, they do not differ much from the ancient Roman and Byzantine architecture found throughout the Hauran . The village did not have any Christian residents in the 19th century. [3]
In 1838 the village was classified as a khirba ("abandoned village") by English biblical scholar Eli Smith . [4] In the late 19th-century al-Sahwah had a population of about 350 people living in about 70 households. The village was vulnerable to incursions by Druze raiders, and also had a shortage of water sources. The villagers had to pay a certain sum to the Druze sheikhs ("chiefs"), in order to connect to a water-canal south of the village and fill the village reservoir. If, in the event of a bad harvest, they could not pay this sum, the village would face mass hunger and cattle had to be taken to Bosra for water. [3]
References
- 1 2 General Census of Population and Housing 2004 . Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 215
- 1 2 Schumacher, 1897, p. 164 .
- ↑ Smith; in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Second appendix, B, p. 151
Bibliography
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (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 .
- Schumacher, G. (1897). "Der Südliche Basan" . Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins . 19–20: 65–227.
External links
- Map of the town , Google Maps
- Bosra-map; 22M
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Daraa
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