Jabah () is a

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located in

Quneitra District Quneitra (or al-Qunaytirah) District () is one of the two districts of the Quneitra Governorate in southern Syria. It is the northern of the two districts, with Fiq District to the south. Part of Quneitra District has been occupied by Israel sinc ...

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. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Jabah had a population of 5,281 in the 2004 census.

History

In 1596, Jabah appeared in the Ottoman tax registers under the name of ''Jaba'', situated in the ''

nahiya A nāḥiyah ( , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiyeh, nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level divisi ...

'' (subdistrict) of Jaydur in the

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. It had an entirely

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population of 30 households and 23 bachelors. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, fruit trees, goats and bee-hives; in addition to occasional revenues. Their total tax was 8,500

akçe The ''akçe'' or ''akça'' (anglicized as ''akche'', ''akcheh'' or ''aqcha''; ; , , in Europe known as '' asper'') was a silver coin mainly known for being the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire. It was also used in other states includi ...

, with all of it going to a

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(religious trust).Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 208

Archaeology

An archaeological survey conducted in the 1970s reported that a local mosque, constructed during the Ottoman period, contained three ancient basalt window grilles featuring the "Knot of Hercules" and grapevine decorations. A similar decorated grille was found repurposed in a local home. These grilles are believed to have originated in the

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