Official Name: | Al-Tha'lah |
Native Name: | الثعلة |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Syria |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Syria |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
Subdivision Name1: | As-Suwayda |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | As-Suwayda |
Subdivision Type3: | Subdistrict |
Subdivision Name3: | Suwayda |
Population As Of: | 2004 |
Population Total: | 4,569 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 32.7117°N 36.4492°W |
Blank Name Sec1: | City Qrya Pcode |
Blank Info Sec1: | C6140 |
Al-Tha'lah (Arabic: الثعلة) is a Syrian village in As-Suwayda District in As-Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Tha'lah had a population of 4,569 in the 2004 census.[1]
In 1596, Al-Tha'lah appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Ta'la; part of the nahiya of Bani Nasiyya in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 30 households and 12 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on various agricultural products, including wheat (10500 akçe), barley (2250), summer crops (1500), goats and beehives (500), in addition to "occasional revenues"(250); a total of 15,000 akçe.[2]
In 1838, it was noted as a Sunni Muslim village, situated "the Nukra, east of Al-Shaykh Maskin".[3]