Saqba
Saqba (Arabic: سقبا; spelt Sakba an aw) is a toun in soothren Sirie, admeenistratively pairt o the Markaz Rif Dimashq Destrict o the Rif Dimashq Govrenorate, locatit juist east o Damascus. Nearbi localities include Jisrin tae the sootheast, Kafr Batna tae the soothwast, Hizzah tae the soothwast an Hammurah an Beit Sawa tae the north. Accordin tae the Sirie Central Bureau o Statistics (CBS), Saqba haed a population o 25,696 in the 2004 census.[1]
Saqba سقبا Sakba | |
|---|---|
Veelage | |
  Saqba | |
| Coordinates: 33°31′11″N 36°23′4″E / 33.51972°N 36.38444°E | |
| Kintra |  Sirie |
| Govrenorate | Rif Dimashq Govrenorate |
| Destrict | Markaz Rif Dimashq |
| Nahiya | Kafr Batna |
| Elevation | 650 m (2,130 ft) |
| Population (2004)[1] | |
| • Total | 25,696 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (EEST) |
History
eeditStudy an recitation o the Quran wis held in the mosque o Saqba as early as the 12t-century when its khatib wis Ahmad ibn Hasan al-Kafatabi.[2] Saqba wis visitit bi Sirie geografer Yaqut al-Hamawi in the early 13t-century, durin Ayyubid rule. He noted that it wis "a village of the Ghautah of Damascus."[3]
Modren era
eeditIn the 1950s Saqba servit as a veelage centre o a destrict which contained seiven ither veelages, wi a tot population o 12,000.[4] The day Saqba haes acome a wirkin-cless eastren suburb o Damascus.[5]
References
eedit- ↑ a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2019-12-13 at the Wayback Machine. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Govrenorate. (in Arabic)
- ↑ Talmon-Heller, p. 69.
- ↑ le Strange, 1890, p. 527.
- ↑ Money-Kyrle, 1956, p. 43.
- ↑ Starr, 2012, p. 192.
Bibliography
eedit- Money-Kyrle, A. F. (1956). Agricultural development and research in Syria. Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, American University of Beirut.
- Starr, Stephen (2012). Revolt in Syria: Eye-Witness to the Uprising. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231704208.
- le Strange, Guy (1890). Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Talmon-Heller, Daniella (2007). Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria: Mosques, Cemeteries and Sermons Under the Zangids and Ayyūbids. BRILL. ISBN 900415809X.