Al-Naimah ( ar, النعيمة), also al-Naima, al-Naimeh or Elnaymah, is a village in southern

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, administratively part of the

Daraa Governorate Daraa Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة درعا / ALA-LC: ') is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in the south-west of the country and covers an area of 3,730 km2. It is bordered by Jordan to the south, Qune ...

, located east of

Daraa Daraa ( ar, دَرْعَا, Darʿā, Levantine Arabic: , also Darʿā, Dara’a, Deraa, Dera'a, Dera, Derʿā and Edrei; means "''fortress''", compare Dura-Europos) is a city in southwestern Syria, located about north of the border with Jordan ...

. Nearby localities include

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to the northwest and

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to the east.

History

In the Ottoman tax registers of 1596, it was a village located the ''

nahiya A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...

'' of Butayna, Qada of Hauran, under the name of ''Nu'ayma''. It had a population of 35 households and 12 bachelors, all

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s. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 15,600

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.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 214 By the beginning of the 19th century, the village had been abandoned, and in 1838 Eli Smith noted that the place was located west of the

Hajj The Hajj (; ar, حَجّ '; sometimes also spelled Hadj, Hadji or Haj in English) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Hajj is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried ...

road, and that it was in ruins.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p
161
/ref> In the 1850s, the village was reestablished by the townspeople of

during a resurgence in grain cultivation to meet growing demand in the

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and European markets.Wetzstein, 1860, pp
85138
cited in Lewis, 2000, p
39
/ref> According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Naimah had a population of 7,472 in the 2004 census.

References

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External links

Map of town
Google Maps
Deraa-map, 22L
{{DEFAULTSORT:Naimah Populated places in Daraa District