Al-Tha'lah

Al-Tha'lah (Arabic: الثعلة) is a Syrian village in As-Suwayda District in As-Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Tha'lah had a population of 4,569 in the 2004 census.^[1]

Al-Tha'lah الثعلة
Village
Al-Tha'lah Location in Syria
Coordinates: 32°42′42″N 36°26′57″E
Grid position	285/235 PAL
Country	Syria
Governorate	As-Suwayda
District	As-Suwayda
Subdistrict	Suwayda
Population  (2004)
• Total	4,569
City Qrya Pcode	C6140

History

In 1596, Al-Tha'lah appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Ta'la; part of the nahiya of Bani Nasiyya in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 30 households and 12 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on various agricultural products, including wheat (10500 akçe), barley (2250), summer crops (1500), goats and beehives (500), in addition to "occasional revenues"(250); a total of 15,000 akçe.^[2]

In 1838, it was noted as a Sunni Muslim village, situated "the Nukra, east of Al-Shaykh Maskin".^[3]

References

1. "General Census of Population 2004" (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-05-07.
2. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 220
3. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 152

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.

External links

• El Karak-map; 21m