Az-Zabayer

Az-Zabayer الزباير
Village
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

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

• Mosque

References

1. General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
2. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 210
3. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 156

Bibliography

• 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.

External links

• Ezraa-map, 20M