Tubna

Tubna was the seat of a Monophysite monastery by the second half of the 6th century.Shahid 2002, p. 228. The Byzantine Empire’s Ghassanid Arab vassals apparently maintained a presence in Tubna as evidenced by a verse by the contemporary poet al-Nabigha that placed the tomb of the Ghassanid emir between “Tubna and Jasim”. Moreover, the Ghassanids were adamant supporters of the Monophysite church and their relationship with Tubna may have been based on their support for its monastery.

The Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi noted in the 1220s that Tubna was "a town of the Hauran, belonging to the Damascus Province".Le Strange, 1890, p. [https://archive.org/stream/palestineundermo00lestuoft#page/546/mode/1up 546]

In 1596 Tubna appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Tibna and was part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Kilab in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 30 households and 25 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives; a total of 16,460 akçe. 2,5/24 of the revenue went to a waqf.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 209.

In 1838, Tibny was noted as a Muslim village, situated "the Nukra, north of Al-Shaykh Maskin".Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/151/mode/1up 151]

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Tubna had a population of 1,272 in 2004.[https://archive.today/20121220155129/http://www.cbssyr.org/new%20web%20site/General_census/census_2004/NH/TAB12-9-2004.htm General Census of Population and Housing 2004]. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. {{in lang|ar}}

The inhabitants are predominantly Melkite Greek Catholics.{{cite news |last1=Dick |first1=Marlin |title=Deep Roots in a Fertile Land |url=http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=3123&pagetypeID=4&sitecode=pm&pageno=2 |accessdate=4 November 2018 |work=ONE Magazine |publisher=Catholic Near East Welfare Association |date=May–June 2004}} The village is among the handful of Melkite villages that straddle the hills separating the Hauran plain and Jabal al-Druze massif.

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| last2 =Abdulfattah|first2=K. |author-link2=Kamal Abdulfattah

| title = Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century

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| publisher = Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft

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|year=1890|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund}}

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|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

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• [https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9946445,36.2168277,15z Map of town], Google Maps
• [http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview/?pi=nla.map-vn745520-s20l Naoua-map; 20L]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090327031748/http://www.khabab.net/ www.khabab.net]
• http://www.esyria.sy/edaraa/index.php?p=stories&category=places&filename=200802241815014

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Category:Melkite Christian communities in Syria