Tahula () is a village situated in the Salkhad District of Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Tahula had a population of 288 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004 . Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Suwayda Governorate. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.

History In 1596, it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Tahula (dir nazd Nawas al-Laja), as part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Malik as-Sadir, in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 37 households and 15 bachelors. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat (1800 a.), barley (900 a.), goats and beehives (200 a.), in addition to "occasional revenues" (50 a.); the taxes totaled 3,000 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah 1977, p. 212.

in 1838, Eli Smith noted it as Tehuleh, a ruin located east of Salkhad.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 160

See also Druze in Syria

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