Attil, Suwayda
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Attil, Suwayda

Attil (Arabic: عتيل, also spelled Atil) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the al-Suwayda District of the al-Suwayda Governorate. In the 2004 census, it had a population of 4,193. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze, with a Sunni Muslim Bedouin minority.

In 1596 it appeared as Atil in the Ottoman tax registers, part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Nasiyya of the Hauran Sanjak. It had a population of 25 households, and 5 bachelors; all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 20% on various agricultural products, such as wheat (3750 a.), barley (1350 a.), summer crops (2500 a.), goats and/or beehives (160 a.), in addition to "occasional revenues" (150 a.); a total of 7,910 akçe. A quarter of the revenue went to a waqf.

In 1838 Eli Smith noted 'Atil as being located in Jebel Hauran, and inhabited by Druze.

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