Al-Shaykh Badr
place in Tartus Governorate, Syria
Al-Shaykh Badr (Arabic: الشيخ بدر, romanized: aš-šayḵ badr, also transliterated Sheikh Bader) is a city in western Syria, administratively part of the Tartus Governorate. Al-Shaykh Badr has an altitude of 536 m (1,759 ft). According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Shaykh Badr, which is the center of its nahiya (subdistrict), had a population of 9,486 in the 2004 census. The town is predominantly populated by Alawites. As of 2008, its subdistrict had a population of 47,982. The town is named after the shrine of a holy man, Shaykh Badr, located within it.
History
Ottoman period
The modern city of al-Shaykh Badr includes the village of Murayqib, which was recorded as a village throughout the Ottoman period (1517–1918). Tax records from 1519 and 1524 each recorded that the village paid 186 dirhems or piasters, rising to 396 dirhems in 1547 and 1,600 dirhems in 1645. During the ten-year period when Muhammad Ali's Egypt controlled Syria, the governor Ibrahim Pasha dispatched 500 Druze warriors to suppress the Alawite revolt in the mountains in 1834–1835. The Druze were all slain near al-Murayqib at a round mound still referred to as the 'Blood Rock'.
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