Murdok

Murdok is a village situated in the Shahba District of Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Murdok had a population of 2,891 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.

History

In 1596 the village appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named Mardak, part of the nahiya of Bani Nasiyya in the Hauran Sanjak. It had a Muslim population consisting of 23 households and 4 bachelors; a total of 27 taxable units. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 20% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" ; a total of 6,300 akçe.
In 1838, Eli Smith noted that inhabitants of Murduk were predominantly Druse and Christians.

Religious buildings

Al-Mahdi