Al-Mujaymer
Village in Suwayda, Syria
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Al-Mujaymer (Arabic: المجيمر) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Suwayda District of the Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Mujaymer had a population of 2,746 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.[2]
History
In 1596 the village appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named Major, part of the nahiya (Subdistrict) of Bani Nasiyya in the Hauran Sanjak. It had a population consisting of 6 households and 5 bachelors, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat (1200 a.), barley (450 a.), summer crops (200 a.), goats and beehives (100 a.), in addition to "occasional revenues" (150 a.); a total of 2,000 akçe.[3]
Religious buildings
- Maqam al-Mahdi (Druze Shrine)