'Ayn Fit (), was a

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Alawite Alawites () are an Arabs, Arab ethnoreligious group who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism, a sect of Islam that splintered from early Shia as a ''ghulat'' branch during the ninth century. Alawites venerate A ...

village situated in the northwestern

Golan Heights The Golan Heights, or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria. It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, the Anti-Lebanon mountains with Mount Hermon in t ...

.''Southern Lebanon Border Area 1986''
– Map from the ''University of Texas at Austin'' general libraries map collection, showing 'Ayn Fit

History

'Ayn Fit was established during the early 17th century. The German explorer

Ulrich Jasper Seetzen Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (30 January 1767September 1811) also known as Musa Al-Hakim was a German explorer of Arabia and Palestine (region), Palestine from Jever, German Frisia. An alternative spelling of his name, Ulrich Iospar Sentzen, is sometime ...

visited 'Ayn Fit in 1806 during his travels in the region. Before the

Six-Day war The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states, primarily United Arab Republic, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan from 5 to 10June ...

in 1967, it was one of three mainly Alawite villages in the Golan Heights, together with Za'ura and Ghajar. The population before the war was around 1500 people. The inhabitants were forcibly expelled during the

, when Israel occupied the Golan Heights, and the village was destroyed by

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{{Quneitra Governorate Alawite communities in Syria Razed cities Former populated places in the Golan Heights Six-Day War 17th-century establishments in Ottoman Syria Populated places established in the 17th century 1967 disestablishments in Syria Populated places disestablished in 1967

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