Al-Naimah

Al-Naimah (Arabic: النعيمة‎), also al-Naima, al-Naimeh or Elnaymah, is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located east of Daraa. Nearby localities include Ataman to the northwest and Saida to the east.

Al-Naimah النعيمة
Village
Al-Naimah
Coordinates: 32°38′2″N 36°9′26″E
Grid position	259/227 PAL
Country	Syria
Governorate	Daraa
District	Daraa
Subdistrict	Daraa
Population  (2004)[1]
• Total	7,472
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

History

In the Ottoman tax registers of 1596, it was a village located the nahiya of Butayna, Qada of Hauran, under the name of Nu'ayma. It had a population of 35 households and 12 bachelors, all Muslims. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 15,600 akçe.[2] By the beginning of the 19th century, the village had been abandoned. However, in the 1850s, it was reestablished by the townspeople of Daraa during a resurgence in grain cultivation to meet growing demand in the Damascene and European markets.[3]

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Naimah had a population of 7,472 in the 2004 census.[1]

References

1. "General Census of Population 2004". Retrieved 2014-07-10.
2. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 214
3. Lewis, Norman (2000). "The Syrian Steppe during the Last Century of Ottoman Rule: Hawran and the Palmyrena". In Mundy, Martha; Musallam, Basim (eds.). The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 39. ISBN 0521770572.

Bibliography

• Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (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.

External links

• Map of town, Google Maps
• Deraa-map, 22L