Hibran,_Syria

Hibran, Syria

Hibran, Syria

Village in Suwayda, Syria

Hibran, also spelled Hebran or Hubran (Arabic: حبران, romanized: Ḥibrān), is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Suwayda Governorate, located south of Suwayda. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Hibran had a population of 3,166 in the 2004 census.[1]

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History

Hibran was noted in the 1596 Ottoman census under the name of Hubran an-Nasara, being located in the nahiya of Bani Nasiyya in the Liwa of Hawran. It had a population of 23 households and 14 bachelors; all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (=1500 akçe), barley (900), summer crops (900), goats and beehives (100); a total of 3,400 akçe.[2]

Ottoman tax records indicate the revenues of Hibran were farmed out to Muhammad Alam al-Din, a Druze emir who fled Mount Lebanon in 1667, in 1669–1671.[3]

According to the historian Kais Firro, Hibran was one of twenty-eight villages in the Hauran settled by Druze before 1812;[4] in 1838 Hibran was noted as Druse village by Eli Smith.[5]

The Druze chieftain Ismail al-Atrash encouraged further Druze migration to Hibran, among a number of other Hauran villages, from Mount Lebanon in the 1850s.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "General Census of Population and Housing 2004" (in Arabic). Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). 2013-01-12.
  2. [2]
    Hütteroth & Abdulfattah 1977, p. 220.
  3. [3]
    Hourani 2010, p. 951.
  4. [4]
    Firro 1992, p. 150.
  5. [5]
    Robinson & Smith 1841, p. 158.
  6. [6]
    Firro 1992, p. 189.

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