Al-Mujaymer


Al-Mujaymer is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Suwayda District of the Suwayda Governorate. According to the Central [Bureau of Statistics |Syria Central Bureau of Statistics], Al-Mujaymer had a population of 2,746 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.

History

In 1596 the village appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named Major, part of the nahiya of Bani Nasiyya in the Hauran Sanjak. It had a population consisting of 6 households and 5 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" ; a total of 2,000 akçe.

Religious buildings