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Al-Harra, Syria

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52: 947: 681: 120: 941: 59: 440:. The opposition-aligned National Organisation for Human Rights in Syria reported 13 people were killed by the Syrian Army during a tank shelling on al-Harra on 12 May 2011. Later, on 30 August three demonstrators, including a 13-year-old boy, were killed by government forces in al-Harra as they dispersed a protest there according to the 456:
seized the town, formerly under opposition control. They freed prisoners held by the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and captured weapons and munitions, following their victory. The army reportedly found an almost empty village upon their arrival, since the vast majority of the residents had left their houses
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of the area. Many of the latter continued to graze their fields in al-Harra. The 126 residences in the village consisted mostly of stone-built huts. The village itself was built around the eastern section of a small volcanic crater in the southeastern base of the
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population of 50 households and 25 bachelors. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and bee-hives; in addition to occasional revenues. Their total tax was 36,638
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found ancient building stones resembling other Byzantine-era artifacts in the Hauran region just outside the town's
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in October 2014. They also captured Tell al-Harra, the hill adjacent to the town and the site of the
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Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century
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due to the ongoing military operations. Al-Harra was captured by Syrian rebels during the
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and its farmland was administered by Yusuf Effendi Mansur Hatim on Freige's behalf. The
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Some of al-Harra's residents have participated in protests against the government of
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visited al-Harra and reported that except for two small
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families, the town's population of 500 was entirely
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Both sites receive their name from the 1639:Populated places in Al-Sanamayn District 513:Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 207 477: 299:, al-Harra had a population of 17,172. 187: 174: 166: 110: 75: 44: 442:Local Coordination Committees of Syria 483: 481: 204: 179: 154: 142: 130: 7: 395:originally from the nearby towns of 259:, administratively belonging to the 236: 499:Syria Central Bureau of Statistics 14: 339:In 1596 al-Harra appeared in the 945: 939: 679: 343:tax registers under the name of 118: 58: 57: 50: 353:(subdistrict) of Jaydur in the 403:who settled among the nomadic 1: 424:and used in the local store. 366:, with half of it going to a 297:Central Bureau of Statistics 295:. In the 2004 census by the 247: 1660: 501:(CBS). Daraa Governorate. 171:950 m (3,120 ft) 1267: 1254: 967: 954: 937: 717: 704: 692: 438:2011-2012 Syrian uprising 76: 45: 36: 1450:al-Ghariyah al-Sharqiyah 1445:al-Ghariyah al-Gharbiyah 452:On 10 August 2013, the 389:. 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Town
Al-Harra is located in Syria
33°3′N 36°0′E / 33.050°N 36.000°E / 33.050; 36.000
Country
Syria
Governorate
Daraa
District
Al-Sanamayn
Subdistrict
Al-Sanamayn
Time zone
UTC+2
EET
DST
UTC+3
EEST
Arabic
romanized
Syria
al-Sanamayn District
Daraa Governorate
Hauran
Daraa
Bir Ajam
Golan Heights
Jasim
al-Sanamayn
Kafr Shams
Central Bureau of Statistics

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