Nahtah

Nahtah ناحتة
Town
Nahtah Location within Syria
Coordinates: 32°47′20″N 36°20′56″E
PAL	276/244
Country	Syria
Governorate	Daraa
District	Izraa
Subdistrict	Hirak
Population  (2004)
• Total	7,789
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Nahtah (Arabic: ناحتة) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Izraa District in the Daraa Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Nahtah had a population of 7,789 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.

History

In 1596 Nahtah appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Nahta and was part of the nahiya of Bani Malik al-Asraf in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 33 households and 19 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (7500 a.), barley (1800 a.), summer crops (1200 a.), goats and beehives (300 a,), in addition to "occasional revenues" (200 a.); a total of 11,000 akçe.

In 1838, it was noted as being east of ash-Shaykh Miskin, with a Sunni Muslim population.

Religious buildings

• Omar Al-Farooq Mosque
• Ammar ibn Yasir Mosque
• Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib Mosque
• Old Mosque (abandoned)

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.
• Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.

External links

• El Karak-map; 21m