Nimreh
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| name = Nimreh
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| native_name = {{lang|ar|نمرة}}
| other_name = Namara
| settlement_type = Village
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| subdivision_name = {{flagicon image|Flag of the Syrian revolution.svg}} Syria
| subdivision_type1 = Governorate
| subdivision_name1 = as-Suwayda
| subdivision_type2 = District
| subdivision_name2 = Shahba
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| subdivision_name3 = Shahba
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| population_total = 4376
| population_as_of = 2004 census
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Nimreh ({{langx|ar|نمرة}}, also called Namara) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the al-Suwayda Governorate, located northeast of al-Suwayda. It is situated on the northern end of Jabal al-Arab. Nearby localities include Shaqqa, Hit and al-Junayneh to the north, Shahba, Salim and Mardak to the west and Mafaalah and Qanawat to the southwest. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Nimreh had a population of 4,376 in the 2004 census.[http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB13-9-2004.htm General Census of Population and Housing 2004] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216014210/http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB13-9-2004.htm |date=2019-12-16 }}. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Suwayda Governorate. {{in lang|ar}}
History
In 1838 Eli Smith noted Nimreh as being located in Hauran Sanjak, and inhabited by Druze and "Greek" Christians.Smith, in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/157/mode/1up 157]
References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book|first=Robert Brenton|last=Betts|title=The Druze|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9nnPg1EDOEC|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0300048100}}
- {{cite book|first=Kais|last=Firro|title=A History of the Druzes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=usEUXYnYWxAC&q=Najran+Hauran|volume=1|publisher=BRILL|year=1992|isbn=9004094377}}
- {{cite book|first=Elizabeth Key|last=Fowden|title=The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UC5v4mgERxwC&q=Hit+village+Hauran|publisher=University of California Press|year=1999|isbn=0520216857}}
- {{cite book|first=E. A.|last=Myers|title=The Ituraeans and the Roman Near East: Reassessing the Sources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-cRrGQ8bIAkC&q=Hit+village+Hauran|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0521518871}}
- {{cite book|first=Josias Leslie|last=Porter|authorlink=Josias Leslie Porter|title=A Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine|volume=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwSatmeOEUgC&q=Hawarin+inhab.+Qara|publisher=Murray|year=1858}}
- {{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=E.|authorlink1=Edward Robinson (scholar)|last2=Smith|first2=E.|authorlink2=Eli Smith|year=1841|url=https://archive.org/details/biblicalresearch03robiuoft |title=Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838| location=Boston|publisher=Crocker & Brewster|volume=3}}
- {{cite book|first=Francis|last=Russel|title=Places in Syria: A Pocket Grand Tour|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rsNHmSHD3FAC&q=Hit+village+Hauran|publisher=Frances Lincoln Ltd.|year=2011|isbn=978-0711231665}}
- {{cite book|first=Alexei|last=Sivertsev|title=Private Households and Public Politics in 3rd-5th Century Jewish Palestine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OfWUkVoHP7YC&q=Hit+village+Hauran|publisher=Mohr Siebeck|year=2002|isbn=3161477804}}
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External links
- [https://www.google.com/maps/@32.826068,36.712253,15z Map of town], Google Maps
{{Al-Suwayda Governorate|shahba}}