Ad-Dilli

Ad-Dilli

الدلي
Ad-Dilli الدلي
Village
	Ad-Dilli
	Coordinates: 32°54′13″N 36°09′32″E / 32.90361°N 36.15889°E
PAL	258/257
Country	Syria
Governorate	Daraa
District	Izraa
Subdistrict	Shaykh Miskin
Population (2004)
• Total	1,271
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Ad-Dilli (Arabic: الدلي) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Izraa District in the Daraa Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), ad-Dilli had a population of 1,271 in the 2004 census.^[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.

History

In 1596, it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named Dali; part of the nahiya of Bani Kilab in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 38 households and 15 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (3000 akçe), barley (1350), summer crops (250), goats and beehives (200), in addition to "occasional revenues" (300); a total of 5,300 akçe. 22/24 of the revenue went to a waqf.^[2]

Religious buildings

Al-Munir Mosque

References

^ ^a ^b General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)
^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 210

Bibliography

Hütteroth, W.-D.; Abdulfattah, K. (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.

External links

Naoua-map, 20L

[CBS-1] General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2013-01-12 at archive.today. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. (in Arabic)

[2] Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 210

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