Khalkhalah

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Khalkhalah
خلخلة
Village
Khalkhalah is located in Syria
Khalkhalah
Khalkhalah
Location in Syria
Coordinates: 33°4′1″N 36°31′55″E / 33.06694°N 36.53194°E / 33.06694; 36.53194
PAL293/275
Country Syria
GovernorateSuwayda
DistrictShahba
SubdistrictSawra as-Saghira
Population
 (2004)
 • Total
2,268
City Qrya PcodeC6253

Khalkhalah (Arabic: خلخلة) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Shahba District of Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Khalkhalah had a population of 2,268 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.[2]

History

In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers under the name of Halala, located in the nahiya of Bani Miglad in the Qada Hawran. It had a Muslim population consisting of 6 households. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (4200 a.), barley (500 a.), summer crops (400 a.), goats and/or beehives (140 a.), in addition to "occasional revenues"(150 a.); a total of 5,340 akçe.[3]

In 1838, it was noted as a ruin, situated "in the Luhf, east of the Lejah, i.e. in Wady el-Liwa".[4]

Religious buildings

  • Maqam al-Khidr (Druze Shrine)

See also

References

  1. "General Census of Population 2004" (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2014-03-07. Retrieved 2022-05-07.
  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
  4. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 155

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