Rimat Hazem
Rimat Hazem
ريمة حازم Rimet Hazem | |
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Village | |
  Rimat Hazem Location within Syria | |
| Coordinates: 32°45′31″N 36°32′04″E / 32.75861°N 36.53444°E | |
| PAL | 294/241 |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Suwayda |
| District | Suwayda |
| Subdistrict | Suwayda |
| Population (2004 census) | |
• Total | 1,627 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Rimat Hazem (Arabic: ريمة حازم) 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), Rimat Hazem had a population of 1,627 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze, with a Sunni Muslim Bedouin minority.[2]
History
[edit]In 1596 the village appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named Rimat Hazim, part of the nahiya (Subdistrict) of Bani Sarma in the Hauran Sanjak. It had a Muslim population consisting of 19 households and 8 bachelors; a total of 27 taxable units. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat (2250 a.), barley (900 a.), summer crops (650 a.), goats and beehives (100 a.); a total of 4,000 akçe.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "General Census of Population 2004". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2014-07-10.
- ↑ "Druze communities in the Middle East". British Druze Society. Archived from the original on September 11, 2011.
- ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 216
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.
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