Ad-Dara


Ad-Dara is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Suwayda District of the Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Ad-Dara had a population of 1,243 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslim Bedouins and Christians.

Demographics

According to statistics from 1927, ad-Dara had a population consisting of a Christian majority of 293 inhabitants and a Sunni Muslim minority of 34.

History

In 1596 the village appeared under the name of ad-Dar in the Ottoman tax registers as part of the nahiya of Bani Nasiyya in the qadaa of Hauran. It had a population of 14 households and 8 bachelors, all Muslim, in all 22 taxable units. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues ; the taxes totalled 5,000 akçe.

Religious buildings