Kawkab, Hama

Kawkab is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Suran Subdistrict of Hama District, located about east of Hama. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Kawkab had a population of 1,639 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are Sunni Muslims.

History

In 1905, during Ottoman rule, Kawkab was sold by a sheikh of the Mawali, a partly Bedouin tribe of central-northern Syria, to the prominent landowning al-Azm family of Hama. Its inhabitants were Sunni Muslim Arab tenant farmers.
As of 2010, Kawkab's economy was based on agriculture, trade and self-employment outside the village, with most workers engaged in agriculture. Pistachios and olives were the main agricultural crops, and to a lesser extent wheat, cumin and lentils.