Al-Mujaymer

Al-Mujaymer
المجيمر
Village
Al-Mujaymer is located in Syria
Al-Mujaymer
Al-Mujaymer
Coordinates: 32°35′42″N 36°32′02″E / 32.59500°N 36.53389°E / 32.59500; 36.53389
Grid position294/223
Country Syria
GovernorateSuwayda
DistrictSuwayda
SubdistrictSuwayda
Population
 (2004 census)
 • Total
2,746
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Al-Mujaymer (Arabic: المجيمر) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Suwayda District of the Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Mujaymer had a population of 2,746 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.[2]

History

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In 1596 the village appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named Major, part of the nahiya (Subdistrict) of Bani Nasiyya in the Hauran Sanjak. It had a population consisting of 6 households and 5 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat (1200 a.), barley (450 a.), summer crops (200 a.), goats and beehives (100 a.), in addition to "occasional revenues" (150 a.); a total of 2,000 akçe.[3]

Religious buildings

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  • Maqam al-Mahdi (Druze Shrine)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "General Census of Population 2004". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2014-07-10.
  2. ^ "Druze communities in the Middle East". British Druze Society. Archived from the original on September 11, 2011.
  3. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 219

Bibliography

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