Al-Mlaihah al-Gharbiyah
المليحة الغربية | |
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Town | |
  Al-Mlaihah al-Gharbiyah | |
| Coordinates: 32°45′05″N 36°20′41″E / 32.75139°N 36.34472°E / 32.75139; 36.34472 | |
| PAL | 240/276 |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Daraa |
| District | Izraa |
| Nahiyah | Hirak |
| Population (2004)[1] | |
• Total | 5,454 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Al-Mlaihah al-Gharbiyah (Arabic: المليحة الغربية) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Izraa District in the Daraa Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Mlaihah al-Gharbiyah had a population of 5,454 in the 2004 census. [1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.
History
[edit]In 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Maliha and was part of the nahiya of Bani Malik al-Asraf 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 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (6000 a.), barley (1800 a.), summer crops (2000 a.), goats and beehives (200 a.); a total of 10,000 akçe.[2]
In 1838, it was noted as being east of ash-Shaykh Miskin, with a Sunni Muslim population.[3]
Religious buildings
[edit]- Al-Farooq Mosque
- Usama ibn Zayd Mosque
References
[edit]- 1 2 General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Deprecated link archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
- ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 213. Note mix-up in grid-no.
- ↑ Smith, in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 152
Bibliography
[edit]- 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.
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