As-Summaqah, Sumaqa or Samaqa (), is a former Syrian village located in the Golan Heights. (As Summaqah shown as an abandoned/dismantled Syrian village)
History The settlement has been inhabited intermittent throughout history. It has remains from the Early Bronze Age II or III, Iron Age I, Roman, Mamluk and Ottoman periods. The Mamluks produced grape honey in the village.
In the 15th–16th century, the al-Fadl tribe left northeastern Syria after an internal conflict. When they arrived in the Golan Heights they settled in several villages in the area including Summaqah. They worked with agriculture and livestock.
Transhumance shaped settlement in the Golan for centuries because of its harsh winters. The winters "forced tribespeople until the 19th century to live in hundreds of rudimentary 'winter villages' in their tribal territory. Starting in the second part of the 19th century, villages became "fixed and formed the nucleus of fully sedentary life in the 20th century Golan."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): 69-70. This continued till after the French Mandate.
After Israel occupied the area in the Six-Day War, they began destroying Syrian villages in the Golan Heights. Summaqah was destroyed in 1967. The population before the war was 150.
See also Syrian towns and villages depopulated in the Arab-Israeli conflict
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