Jirrin

Jirrin
جرين
Jerein
Village
Jirrin is located in Syria
Jirrin
Jirrin
Location within Syria
Coordinates: 32°55′50″N 36°24′14″E / 32.93056°N 36.40389°E / 32.93056; 36.40389
PAL281/260
Country Syria
GovernorateSuwayda
DistrictShahba
SubdistrictAriqah
Population
 (2004 census)
 • Total
507
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Jirrin (Arabic: جرين) is a village situated in the Shahba District of Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Jirrin had a population of 507 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.

History

In 1596 Jirrin appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as part of the nahiya of Bani Abdullah, in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 6 households and 3 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (1500 a.), barley (900 a.), summer crops (800 a.), goats and/or beehives (100 a.); a total of 3,300 akçe.

See also

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). 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 and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 216.

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