Khalkhalah
Sign in to saveKhalkhalah () is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Shahba District of Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Khalkhalah had a population of 2,268 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.
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Vinony files it under Druze communities in Syria, Populated places in Shahba District and Villages in Syria.
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Khalkhalah () is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Shahba District of Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Khalkhalah had a population of 2,268 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.
==History== In 1596, it appeared in Ottoman tax registers under the name of Halala, located in the nahiya of Bani Miglad in the Qada Hawran. It had a Muslim population consisting of 6 households. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (4200 a.), barley (500 a.), summer crops (400 a.), goats and/or beehives (140 a.), in addition to "occasional revenues"(150 a.); a total of 5,340 akçe.
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