Al-Samaqiyat
السماقيات | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 32°25′46″N 36°23′38″E / 32.42944°N 36.39389°E | |
Country | Syria |
Governorate | Daraa |
District | Daraa |
Subdistrict | Bosra al-Sham |
Population (2004 census)
[1] | |
• Total | 511 |
Time zone | UTC+2 ( EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 ( EEST) |
Al-Samaqiyat, also spelled al-Summaqiyat or Smaqiyat ( Arabic: السماقيات), is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located east of Daraa and south of Bosra. Other nearby localities include al-Mataaiya to the west and Samad to the northeast. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Samaqiyat had a population of 511 in the 2004 census. [1]
Samaqiyat had been an abandoned village as of 1890, but was resettled by Christians by 1895, when the village had about eleven families. [2] [3] The population grew to twenty-five families by 1905. [3] Because its location in the Hamad desert steppe, its land was dry. It also experienced raids by the Druze from the neighboring Jabal al-Druze mountain and by the Bedouin tribes active in the area. [3] The Bedouin overran the area surrounding the village in 1909. [3] Since the Ottoman era, the village has been dominated by the Miqdad clan. [4]