Ad-Duwayra

Ad-Duwayra

الدويرة
Ad-Duwaira, Ad-Duweira, Ad-Dweira
Ad-Duwayra الدويرة Ad-Duwaira, Ad-Duweira, Ad-Dweira
Village
	Ad-Duwayra
	Coordinates: 32°50′54″N 36°23′50″E / 32.84833°N 36.39722°E
Grid position	281/251
Country	Syria
Governorate	Suwayda
District	Suwayda
Subdistrict	Mazraa
Population (2004 census)
• Total	950
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Ad-Duwayra (Arabic: الدويرة) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Ad-Duwayra had a population of 950 in the 2004 census.^[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze, with Christian and Sunni Muslim Bedouin minorities.^[2]

History

In 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as ad-Dur as part of the nahiya of Badi Sarma in the Qada of Hauran. It had an all Muslim population consisting of 60 households and 35 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (4500 a.), barley (1800 a.), summer crops (1500 a.) goats and/or beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" (200 a.); a total of 8,000 akçe.^[3]

In 1838, Eli Smith noted it under the name of ed-Duweirah, and that the inhabitants were predominantly Druse and Catholic Christians.^[4]

Civil war

During the southern Syria clashes in 2025, the St. George Church in the village was robbed, vandalized, and burned by members of the Defence and Interior Ministries, along with armed Bedouin men.^[5]

Demographics

In 2011, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church had approximately 100 believers.^[6]

Religious buildings

St. George of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church^[7]^[8]
Mosque
Maqam Baha al-Din (Druze Shrine)

References

^ ^a ^b General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Suwayda Governorate. (in Arabic)
^ "Druze communities in the Middle East". British Druze Society. Archived from the original on September 11, 2011.
^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 217.
^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Second appendix, B, p. 156
^ https://www.syriahr.com/en/367805/
^ https://www.melkitepat.org/melkite_greek_catholic_church/Metropole-of-Bosra-and-Hauran
^ https://albishara.net/church/details/3143
^ https://www.melkitepat.org/melkite_greek_catholic_church/Metropole-of-Bosra-and-Hauran

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.

[CBS-1] General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Suwayda Governorate. (in Arabic)

[BDS-2] "Druze communities in the Middle East". British Druze Society. Archived from the original on September 11, 2011.

[3] Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 217.

[SmithApp156-4] Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Second appendix, B, p. 156

[5] ttps://www.syriahr.com/en/367805/

[6] ttps://www.melkitepat.org/melkite_greek_catholic_church/Metropole-of-Bosra-and-Hauran

[7] ttps://albishara.net/church/details/3143

[8] ttps://www.melkitepat.org/melkite_greek_catholic_church/Metropole-of-Bosra-and-Hauran

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