Ghasm

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Ghasm
غصم
Village
Ghasm is located in Syria
Ghasm
Ghasm
Coordinates: 32°32′44″N 36°22′33″E / 32.54556°N 36.37583°E / 32.54556; 36.37583
Grid position279/217
Country Syria
GovernorateDaraa
DistrictDaraa
SubdistrictAl-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, also spelled Ghasam) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located northeast of Daraa and west of Bosra. Other nearby localities include Maaraba to the east, al-Sahwah to the north, al-Jiza to west and al-Mataaiya to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Ghasm had a population of 3,666 in the 2004 census.[1]

History[]

A Roman road, still in use in the late 19th century, leads to Ghasm.[2] The village contains a ruined Byzantine-era church. It was dedicated to the honor of Saints Sergius and Bacchus in 593 CE.[3]

Ottoman era[]

Ghasm's inhabitants were originally settled Bedouin.[4] The Sunni Muslim al-Miqdad clan has been the predominant family in Ghasm and a number of nearby towns since the Ottoman Empire era.[5]

In 1596 Ghasm appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Gasim and was part of the nahiya of Butayna in the . It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 25 households and 12 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and/or beehives, and a water-mill; a total of 6,500 akçe.[6]

In 1838, Ghusam was noted as a ruin, situated "In the Nukrah, west of Busrah".[7]

In 1895 travellers passing through the village were told of how the Druze had raided the village in 1893. The villagers had to rely on the Druze for the water-course to be led by the village, and in 1894 they had paid the Druze 200 medjidies.[2] Late 19th century, the village had 106 houses and a population of 450, including six Christian families.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of 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. ^ Butler, Howard Crosby. (1930). Syria: publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904-1905 and 1909. E. J. Brill.
  5. ^ Batatu, 1999, p. 24
  6. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 214.
  7. ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 153
  8. ^ Schumacher, 1897, p. 165.

Bibliography[]

  • Batatu, H. (1999). Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691002541.
  • Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (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.
  • Morison, T; et al. (1911). The life of Sir Edward FitzGerald Law, K.C.S.I., K.C.M.G. Edinburgh, London: W. Blackwood and sons.
  • Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
  • Schumacher, G. (1897). "Der Südliche Basan". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 19–20: 65–227.

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