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Khirbet al-Sawda خربة السودا
Village
Khirbet al-SawdaLocation in Syria
Coordinates: 33°23′20″N 35°55′38″E / 33.38889°N 35.92722°E / 33.38889; 35.92722
Country	Syria
Governorate	Rif Dimashq
District	Qatana
Subdistrict	Beit Jinn
Population
• Total	124
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Khirbet al-Sawda (Arabic: خربة السودا) is a Syrian village in the Beit Jinn sub-district of Qatana District, in the Rif Dimashq Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Khirbet al-Sawda had a population of 124 at the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.

The presence of Druze around Mount Hermon is documented since the founding of the Druze religion in the beginning of the 11th century.

References

1. ^ General Census of Population and Housing 2004. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. (in Arabic)
2. "Druze communities in the Middle East". British Druze Society. Archived from the original on September 11, 2011.
3. Roy Marom, “Sukayk and al-Summāqah: Mamluk Rural Geography in the Northern Jawlān/Golan Heights in the Light of Qāytbāy’s Endowment Deeds,” in Kate Raphael and Mustafa Abbasi (ed.s), The Golan in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods: an Archaeological and Historical Study: Excavations at Naʿarān and Farj, In Honour of Moshe Hartal, Yigal Ben Ephraim and Shuqri ‘Arraf, Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion Volume xiv (2024): 67

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