Mayamas
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Mayamas
مياماس Miyamas | |
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Village | |
  Mayamas | |
| Coordinates: 32°37′00″N 36°41′24″E / 32.61667°N 36.69000°E | |
| PAL | 308/225 |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Suwayda |
| District | Suwayda |
| Subdistrict | Suwayda |
| Population (2004 census) | |
• Total | 2,525 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Mayamas (Arabic: مياماس) 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), Mayamas had a population of 2,525 in the 2004 census.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze, with a Sunni Muslim Bedouin minority.[2]
In 1596 the village appeared under the name of Mimas in the Ottoman tax registers as part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Nasiyya in the qadaa of Hauran. It had a population of 4 households, all Muslim, who paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat (350 a.), barley (180 a.), summer crops (60 a), goats and beehives (6 a.); the taxes totalled 650 akçe.[3]
Religious buildings
- Maqam al-Kilmah (Druze Shrine)
