Burd, Suwayda
settlement in Syria
Burd (Arabic: برد) is a village situated in the Salkhad District of Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Burd had a population of 207 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze, with a Sunni Muslim Bedouin minority.
History
In 1596, it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Burd (dir nazd Tasil), as part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Malik as-Sadir, in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 8 households and 2 bachelors. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat (750 a.), barley (450 a.), summer crops (700 a.) goats and beehives (100 a.); the taxes totalled 2,000 akçe.
In 1838, Eli Smith noted it as Burd, a ruin located "in the Nukrah, east of Busrah", the Nukrah being the southern Hauran plain.
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