Harfa
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Harfa
حرفا | |
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Village | |
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| Country | File:Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg Syria |
| Governorate | Rif Dimashq |
| District | Qatana |
| Subdistrict | Beit Jinn |
| Population (2004 census)[1] | |
• Total | 2,362 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Harfa (Arabic: حرفا) is a Syrian village in the Qatana District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Harfa had a population of 2,362 at the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly from the Druze community.[2]
History
[edit | edit source]An archaeological survey conducted in Harfa in the 1970s documented what appears to be a monumental mausoleum dating to the Roman period.[3]
The presence of Druze around Mount Hermon is documented since the founding of the Druze religion in the beginning of the 11th century.[4]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. (in Arabic)
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- ^ Roy Marom, “Sukayk and al-Summāqah: Mamluk Rural Geography in the Northern Jawlān/Golan Heights in the Light of Qāytbāy’s Endowment Deeds,” in Kate Raphael and Mustafa Abbasi (ed.s), The Golan in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods: an Archaeological and Historical Study: Excavations at Naʿarān and Farj, In Honour of Moshe Hartal, Yigal Ben Ephraim and Shuqri ‘Arraf, Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion Volume xiv (2024): 67
