Umm ar-Rumman (Arabic: أم الرمان) is a village situated in the Salkhad District of Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Umm ar-Rumman had a population of 1,775 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze , while Christians and Sunni Muslim Bedouins represent a minority.[2]
Umm ar-Rumman
أم الرمان | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Umm ar-Rumman | |
| Coordinates: 32°25′28″N 36°37′24″E / 32.42444°N 36.62333°E | |
| PAL | 302/203 |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Suwayda |
| District | Salkhad |
| Subdistrict | Dhibin |
| Population (2004 census)[1] | |
• Total | 1,775 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
History
editIn 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Rumman and was part of the nahiya of Bani Malik as-Sadir in the Qada Hauran. It had an all Muslim population consisting of 40 households and 5 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 20% on wheat (11250 a.), barley 5400 a.), summer crops (2000 a.), goats and/or beehives (400 a.), in addition to "occasional revenues" (500 a.); a total of 19,550 akçe.[3]
In 1838 Um er-Rumman was noted as a "ruin or deserted", located in the Nukrah, south of Busrah.[4] the Nukrah being the southern Hauran plain.
Religious buildings
edit- St. George Greek Orthodox Church[5]
- Maqam Ayyub/Job (Druze Shrine)
See also
editReferences
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, pp. 112, 154
- ↑ https://albishara.net/church/details/3126
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.