Al-Mughayyir () is a village situated in the Salkhad District of Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Mughayyir had a population of 615 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 Mugayyir as-Sarqi and was part of the nahiya of Butayna in the Qada Hauran. It had an all Muslim population consisting of 7 households and 4 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (750 a.), barley 450 a.), summer crops (500 a.), goats and/or beehives (200 a.), in addition to "occasional revenues" (100 a.); a total of 2,000 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 214 See also Druze in Syria
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