Anz, Suwayda


Anz is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Salkhad District of the Suwayda Governorate. In the 2004 census it had a population of 1,102. Its inhabitants are Druze, Christians and Sunni Muslims.

History

In 1596, it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers Anaz, as part of the nahiya of Bani Malik as-Sadir, in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 15 households and 12 bachelors. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives ; the taxes totaled 8,000 akçe.
in 1838, Eli Smith noted the place was in ruined, and that it was located east of Salkhad.

Demographics

According to statistics from 1927, Anz had a population consisting of 327 Christians, 227 Druze, and 204 Sunni Muslims.
In 2011, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church had approximately 200 believers.

Religious buildings