Akrad Ibrahim

Akrad Ibrahim
أكراد إبراهيم
Village
Akrad Ibrahim is located in Syria
Akrad Ibrahim
Akrad Ibrahim
Location in Syria
Coordinates: 34°59′N 36°28′E / 34.983°N 36.467°E / 34.983; 36.467
Country Syria
GovernorateHama
DistrictHama
SubdistrictHirbnafsah
Population
 (2004)
 • Total
698
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
City Qrya PcodeC3046

Akrad Ibrahim (Arabic: أكراد إبراهيم, romanizedAkrād Ibrāhīm) is a village in central Syria, administratively part of the Hirbnafsah Subdistrict of Hama District. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Akrad Ibrahim had a population of 698 in the 2004 census.[1]

History

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The original settlement of Akrad Ibrahim was founded in the early 19th century by Kurdish tribesmen, along with Akrad Dayasinah, according to the Syrian historian Wasfi Zakariyya. These tribesmen were likely associated with Mulla Isma'il, the local strongman of the Hama region in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who was a Kurdish officer of the Dalat cavalry.[2] In an Ottoman government record from 1818, Akrad Ibrahim was listed as a grain-growing village of the Hama Sanjak. It consisted of 50 feddans and paid 5,280 qirsh in taxes, as well as 2,127 qirsh in illegal exactions to the mutasallim of Hama, Faraj Agha. At the time, the multazims (tax farmers) of Akrad Ibrahim were locals from the village.[3]

In the late 19th or early 20th centuries, Akrad Ibrahim's inhabitants sold or 'ceded' all or most of their lands to the urban notables of Hama. By the early 1930s, the prominent Kaylani family of Hama were the owners of the village and the inhabitants were Alawite tenant farmers.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "General Census of Population 2004". Retrieved 2014-07-10.
  2. ^ Winter & HajHasan 2024.
  3. ^ Douwes 2000, pp. 169, note 61, 224.
  4. ^ Comité de l'Asie française 1933, pp. 132–134.

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