Adwan
Sign in to saveAdawan () is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of Izraa District in the Daraa Governorate. Nearby localities include ash-Shaykh Saad to the east, Saham al-Jawlan to the southwest and Tasil to the west. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Adawan had a population of 2,487 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.
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Adawan () is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of Izraa District in the Daraa Governorate. Nearby localities include ash-Shaykh Saad to the east, Saham al-Jawlan to the southwest and Tasil to the west. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Adawan had a population of 2,487 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.
==History== In 1596, Adawan appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as "'Udwan" and was part of the nahiya of Jawlan Sarqi in the Qada of Hauran. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 21 households and 15 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives; a total of 700 akçe.
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