Burd () is a village situated in the Salkhad District of Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Burd had a population of 207 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, with a Sunni Muslim Bedouin minority. History In 1596, it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Burd (dir nazd Tasil), as part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Malik as-Sadir, in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 8 households and 2 bachelors. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat (750 a.), barley (450 a.), summer crops (700 a.) goats and beehives (100 a.); the taxes totalled 2,000 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah 1977, p. 211
In 1838, Eli Smith noted it as Burd, a ruin located "in the Nukrah, east of Busrah",Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 154 the Nukrah being the southern Hauran plain. See also Druze in Syria
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