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Qarfa
قرفــا
Village
Grid position262/247 PAL
Country Syria
GovernorateDaraa Governorate
DistrictIzra District
NahiyahAl-Shaykh Maskin
Population
 (2004 census)[1]
 • Total4,885
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Qarfa (Arabic: قرفــا, also spelled Garfa or Kurfa) is a village in southern Syria, administratively belonging to the Izra' District of the Daraa Governorate. Nearby localities include al-Shaykh Maskin to the northwest, Izra to the northeast, Maliha al-Atash to the east, Namir to the southeast, Khirbet Ghazaleh to the south and Abtaa to the southwest. In the 2004 census by the Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Hirak had a population of 20,760.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Muslims.[2]

History

Inside a private house in Qarfa a Greek inscription dedicating a church to Saint Bacchus was discovered. The inscription was dated to 589-590 CE and written on a stone lintel decorated with a cross.[3]

In 1596, Qarfa appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village in the Nahiya of Bani Malik al-Asraf in the Hawran Qada. It had a population of 42 Muslim households and 15 bachelors. It paid taxes on wheat, barley, summercrops, and goats or beehives.[4]

On 13 August 1962 a tribal feud in Qarfa between the al-Makayed and al-Manasser clans resulted in five people being wounded. The fighting was a result of old rivalries. Security forces arrested several people from the town and the wounded were evacuated to the hospital.[5] During the ongoing Syrian Civil War, which began in 2011, opposition rebels from the Free Syrian Army attacked a petrol station in Qarfa, killing a relative of high-ranking government official Rustum Ghazaleh in early January 2013.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004[permanent dead link]. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. Template:Ar icon
  2. ^ Smith; in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Second appendix, B, p. 152
  3. ^ Chaniotis, 2003, p. 521.
  4. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 212
  5. ^ Mideast Mirror. 14. Arab News Agency. (1962). Page 20.
  6. ^ FSA kills relative of Syrian security chief in Deraa. Al Arabiya. 2013-01-05.

Bibliography

  • Chaniotis, A. (2003). Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Vol. 50. BRILL Academic Publications. ISBN 9050634087.
  • 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.
  • Robinson, Edward; Smith, Eli (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.
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