Samma al-Baradan

Not to be confused with Samma, Suwayda.

Samma al-Baradan صما البردان Samma al-Bardan
Village
Samma al-Baradan
Coordinates: 32°24′51″N 36°46′07″E / 32.41417°N 36.76861°E / 32.41417; 36.76861
PAL	316/203
Country	Syria
Governorate	Suwayda
District	Salkhad
Subdistrict	Salkhad
Population  (2004 census)[1]
• Total	1,296
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Samma al-Baradan (Arabic: صما البردان) is a village situated in the Salkhad District of Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Samma al-Baradan had a population of 1,296 in the 2004 census.^[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.^[2]

History

In 1596, it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Samma (dir nazd Kafr Taman), as part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Malik as-Sadir, in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 20 households and 10 bachelors. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat (6000 a.), barley (900 a.), summer crops (1600 a.) goats and beehives (300 a.), in addition to "occasional revenues" (200 a.); the taxes totalled 9,000 akçe.^[3]

In 1838, Eli Smith noted it as Summa el-Buradan, a ruin located east of Salkhad.^[4]

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
4. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 160

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.