Ad-Dara () 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), Ad-Dara had a population of 1,243 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslim Bedouins and Christians.
Demographics According to statistics from 1927, ad-Dara had a population consisting of a Christian majority of 293 inhabitants and a Sunni Muslim minority of 34.Betts, 1988, p. 60
History In 1596 the village appeared under the name of ad-Dar in the Ottoman tax registers as part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Nasiyya in the qadaa of Hauran. It had a population of 14 households and 8 bachelors, all Muslim, in all 22 taxable units. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat (3000 a.), barley (900 a.), summer crops (800 a), goats and beehives (150 a.), in addition to occasional revenues (150 a.); the taxes totalled 5,000 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 220
Religious buildings St. George Greek Orthodox Churchhttp://home.balamand.edu.lb/arabic/arpoa.asp?id=5525 Omar ibn al-Khattab Mosque
See also Christians in Syria
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External links El Karak-map; 21m