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Qarfa
Qarfa (Arabic: قرفــا) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Izraa District in the Daraa Governorate. Nearby localities include ash-Shaykh Miskin to the northwest, Izraa to the northeast, Mlaihat al-Atash to the east, Namer to the southeast, Khirbet Ghazaleh to the south and Abtaa to the southwest. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Qarfa had a population of 4,885 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.
Inside a private house in Qarfa a Greek inscription dedicating a church to Saint Bacchus was discovered. The inscription was dated to 589-590 CE and written on a stone lintel decorated with a cross.
In 1596, Qarfa appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village in the Nahiya of Bani Malik al-Asraf in the Hawran Qada. It had a population of 42 households and 15 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, and goats or beehives, a total of 6,451 akçe. 5/24 of the revenue went to a Waqf
In 1838, it was noted as a Sunni Muslim village (Kurfa) in the Nukrah district, east of ash-Shaykh Miskin.
On 13 August 1962 a tribal feud in Qarfa between the al-Makayed and al-Manasser clans resulted in five people being wounded. The fighting was a result of old rivalries. Security forces arrested several people from the town and the wounded were evacuated to the hospital.
During the ongoing civil war, which began in 2011, opposition rebels from the Free Syrian Army attacked a petrol station in Qarfa, resulting in the death of a relative of high-ranking government official Rustum Ghazaleh in early January 2013.
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Qarfa
Qarfa (Arabic: قرفــا) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Izraa District in the Daraa Governorate. Nearby localities include ash-Shaykh Miskin to the northwest, Izraa to the northeast, Mlaihat al-Atash to the east, Namer to the southeast, Khirbet Ghazaleh to the south and Abtaa to the southwest. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Qarfa had a population of 4,885 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.
Inside a private house in Qarfa a Greek inscription dedicating a church to Saint Bacchus was discovered. The inscription was dated to 589-590 CE and written on a stone lintel decorated with a cross.
In 1596, Qarfa appeared in Ottoman tax registers as a village in the Nahiya of Bani Malik al-Asraf in the Hawran Qada. It had a population of 42 households and 15 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, and goats or beehives, a total of 6,451 akçe. 5/24 of the revenue went to a Waqf
In 1838, it was noted as a Sunni Muslim village (Kurfa) in the Nukrah district, east of ash-Shaykh Miskin.
On 13 August 1962 a tribal feud in Qarfa between the al-Makayed and al-Manasser clans resulted in five people being wounded. The fighting was a result of old rivalries. Security forces arrested several people from the town and the wounded were evacuated to the hospital.
During the ongoing civil war, which began in 2011, opposition rebels from the Free Syrian Army attacked a petrol station in Qarfa, resulting in the death of a relative of high-ranking government official Rustum Ghazaleh in early January 2013.