Ghasm

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Ghasm

غصم
Veelage
Ghasm is located in Syrie
Ghasm
Ghasm
Coordinates: 32°32′44″N 36°22′33″E / 32.54556°N 36.37583°E / 32.54556; 36.37583
Kintra Sirie
GovernorateDaraa Govrenorate
DestrictDaraa Destrict
Nahiyahal-Jiza
Elevation
531 m (1,742 ft)
Population
 (2004 census)[1]
 • Total3,666
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Ghasm (Arabic: غصم‎, spelt Ghasam) is a veelage in southern Sirie, admeenistratively pairt o the Daraa Governorate, locatit northeast o Daraa an wast o Bosra. Other nearby localities include Maarbah tae the east, al-Sahwah tae the north, al-Jiza tae wast an al-Mataaiya tae the sooth. Accordin tae the Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS), Ghasm haed a population of 3,666 in the 2004 census.[1]

History[eedit | eedit soorce]

A Roman road, still in uise in the late 19t century, leads tae Ghasm.[2]

The veelage contains a ruined Byzantine-era kirk. It wis dedicatit tae the honor o Saunts Sergius an Bacchus in 593 CE.[3] The Sunni Muslim al-Miqdad clan haes been the predominant faimily in Ghasm an a nummer o nearbi touns syne the Ottoman Empire era.[4]

In 1596 Ghasm appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Gasim an wis pairt o the nahiya o Butayna in the Qada o Hauran. It hade an entirely Muslim population consistin o 25 hoosehaulds an 12 bachelors. Taxes wur paid on wheat, baurley, simmer crops, goats an/or beehives, an a watter-mill.[5]

In 1895 travellers passin through the veelage were tauld o hou the Druze haed raidit the veelage in 1893. The veelagers haed tae rely on the Druze for the watter-course tae be led bi the veelage, an in 1894 they haed paid the Druze 200 mejidiehs.[2]

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

  1. a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-01-12 at Archive.today. Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. a b Morison, T, et al., 1911, p. 154
  3. The Homiletic review, 72. Funk and Wagnallis (1916).
  4. Batatu, 1999, p. 24.
  5. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 214.

Bibliografie[eedit | eedit soorce]

  • Batatu, Hanna (1999). Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691002541.
  • Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth and Kamal Abdulfattah (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.
  • Morison, T, et al. (1911): The life of Sir Edward FitzGerald Law, K.C.S.I., K.C.M.G

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