Official Name: | Al-Karak |
Native Name: | الكرك |
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: | Daraa |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Daraa |
Subdivision Type3: | Subdistrict |
Subdivision Name3: | Musayfira |
Population As Of: | 2004 |
Population Total: | 10,510 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 32.6872°N 36.3508°W |
Blank Name Sec1: | City Qrya Pcode |
Blank Info Sec1: | C6047 |
Al-Karak (Arabic: الكرك) is a Syrian village in Daraa District in Daraa Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Karak had a population of 10,510 in the 2004 census.[1]
In 1596, Al-Karak appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Karak al-Bataniyya; part of the nahiya of Bani Malik al-Asraf in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 45 households and 71 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (10800 akçe), barley (1800), summer crops (4200), goats and beehives (1700), in addition to "occasional revenues"(1500); a total of 20,000 akçe. 5/24 of the revenue went to a waqf.[2]
In 1838, it was noted as a Sunni Muslim village, situated "In the Nukrah, South of Eshmiskin".[3]