Al-Samaqiyat, also spelled al-Summaqiyat or Smaqiyat (Arabic: السماقيات), is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located east of Daraa and south of Bosra. Other nearby localities include al-Mataaiya to the west and Samad to the northeast. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Samaqiyat had a population of 511 in the 2004 census.[1]
Al-Samaqiyat
السماقيات | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Al-Samaqiyat | |
| Coordinates: 32°25′46″N 36°23′38″E / 32.42944°N 36.39389°E | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Daraa |
| District | Daraa |
| Subdistrict | Bosra al-Sham |
| Population (2004 census)[1] | |
• Total | 511 |
| Time zone | UTC 2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC 3 (EEST) |
History
editSamaqiyat had been an abandoned village as of 1890, but was resettled by Christians by 1895, when the village had about eleven families.[2][3] The population grew to twenty-five families by 1905.[3] Because its location in the Hamad desert steppe, its land was dry. It also experienced raids by the Druze from the neighboring Jabal al-Druze mountain and by the Bedouin tribes active in the area.[3] The Bedouin overran the area surrounding the village in 1909.[3] Since the Ottoman era, the village has been dominated by the Miqdad clan.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ^ Schumacher, 1897, pp. 150-153
- ^ a b c d Lewis, Norman (2000). "The Syrian Steppe during the Last Century of Ottoman Rule: Hawran and the Palmyrena". In Mundy, Martha; Musallam, Basim (eds.). The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 40–41. ISBN 978-0521770576.40-41&rft.pub=Cambridge University Press&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0521770576&rft.aulast=Lewis&rft.aufirst=Norman&rft_id=https://books.google.com/books?id=iwxeHaKUGFMC&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Samaqiyat" class="Z3988">
- ^ Batatu, H. (1999). Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics. Princeton University Press. p. 24. ISBN 0691002541.
Bibliography
edit- Schumacher; et al. (1897). "Der Südliche Basan". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 19–20: 65–227.65-227&rft.date=1897&rft.au=Schumacher&rft_id=https://archive.org/details/zeitschriftdesde19deut&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Samaqiyat" class="Z3988">
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