Al-Karak, Syria

Al-Karak is a Syrian village in Daraa District in Daraa Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Karak had a population of 10,510 in the 2004 census.

History

In 1596, Al-Karak appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as 'Karak al-Bathaniyya'; part of the nahiya of Bani Malik al-Ashraf in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 45 households and 71 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 20,000 akçe. 5/24 of the revenue went to a waqf.
In 1838, it was noted as a Sunni Muslim village, situated "In the Nukrah, South of Eshmiskin", the Nukrah being the southern Hauran plain.