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Umm Ruwaq

village in Syria

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ12180450 ↗
Source-derived summary

Umm Ruwaq (Arabic: أم رواق) is a village situated in the Suwayda District of Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Umm Ruwaq had a population of 1,296 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.

Editorial summary

“Umm Ruwaq” enters the record as village in Syria. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ruwaq, village and Syria can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ruwaq, village and Syria.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Umm Ruwaq” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ruwaq, village and Syria provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12180450. Authority coordinates are 32.787, 36.785. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Umm Ruwaq”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Umm Ruwaq primary sources, Umm Ruwaq archive and Ruwaq research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Umm Ruwaq”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Umm Ruwaq” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.