Ad-Dilli

Ad-Dilli
الدلي
Village
Ad-Dilli is located in Syria
Ad-Dilli
Ad-Dilli
Location within Syria
Coordinates: 32°54′13″N 36°09′32″E / 32.90361°N 36.15889°E / 32.90361; 36.15889
PAL258/257
Country Syria
GovernorateDaraa
DistrictIzraa
SubdistrictShaykh Miskin
Population
 (2004)
 • Total
1,271
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Ad-Dilli (Arabic: الدلي) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Izraa District in the Daraa Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), ad-Dilli had a population of 1,271 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.

History

In 1596, it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named Dali; part of the nahiya of Bani Kilab in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 38 households and 15 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (3000 akçe), barley (1350), summer crops (250), goats and beehives (200), in addition to "occasional revenues" (300); a total of 5,300 akçe. 22/24 of the revenue went to a waqf.

Religious buildings

References

  1. 1 2 General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Deprecated link archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 210

Bibliography

  • Hütteroth, W.-D.; Abdulfattah, K. (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.