Qaysamma

Qaysamma قيصما
Village
Qaysamma
Coordinates: 32°32′03″N 36°50′23″E / 32.53417°N 36.83972°E / 32.53417; 36.83972
PAL	322/216
Country	Syria
Governorate	Suwayda
District	Salkhad
Subdistrict	Malah
Population  (2004 census)[1]
• Total	1,178
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Qaysamma (Arabic: قيصما) is a village situated in the Salkhad District of Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Qaysamma had a population of 1,178 in the 2004 census.^[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.^[2]

History

In 1596 Qaysamma appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Qaysama, as part of the nahiya of Bani Malik as-Sadir in the Qada Hauran. It had an all Muslim population consisting of 10 households and 2 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 20% on wheat, a total of 3,900 akçe.^[3]

Religious buildings

• Maqam Prophet Shuaib (Druze Shrine)

See also

• Druze in Syria

References

1. General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Suwayda Governorate. (in Arabic)
2. "Druze communities in the Middle East". British Druze Society. Archived from the original on September 11, 2011.
3. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 211

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.