Hout, Suwayda

Hout
حوط
Village
Hout is located in Syria
Hout
Hout
Location within Syria
Coordinates: 32°29′23″N 36°36′31″E / 32.48972°N 36.60861°E / 32.48972; 36.60861
Grid position301/211
Country Syria
GovernorateSuwayda
DistrictSalkhad
SubdistrictQurayya
Population
 (2004 census)
 • Total
873
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Hout (Arabic: حوط, also spelled Hut) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Suwayda Governorate, located south of Suwayda. Nearby localities include Umm ar-Rumman to the south, Samad to the southwest, Bosra to the west, Nimrah and al-Qurayya to the north and Salkhad to the east. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Hout had a population of 873 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.

History

In 1596, Hout appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Huta, and was part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Malik as-Sadir in the Qada Hauran. It had an all Muslim population consisting of 5 households and 2 bachelors. The residents paid a fixed tax rate of 20% on wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, as well as on "occasional revenues" and for a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 3,180 akçe.

A survey conducted by Edward Robinson and Eli Smith in 1838 described Hout as situated in the Nukrah, east of Busrah, and being in a state of ruin. The Nukrah refers to the southern part of the Hauran plain.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 General Census of Population and Housing 2004[link removed]. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Suwayda Governorate. (in Arabic)
  2. ↑ "Druze communities in the Middle East". British Druze Society. Archived from the original on September 11, 2011.
  3. ↑ Hütteroth, Wolf Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlangen, Germany: Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
  4. ↑ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, pp. 112, 154

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