Beer Ajam
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Beer Ajam بئر عجم |
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 Beer Ajam
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| Coordinates: 33°03′11.68″N 35°52′1.62″E / 33.0532444°N 35.8671167°ECoordinates: 33°03′11.68″N 35°52′1.62″E / 33.0532444°N 35.8671167°E | |
| Grid position | 228/292 PAL |
| Country |
 Syria
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| Governorate | Quneitra |
| District | Quneitra |
| Subdistrict | Quneitra |
| Settled | 1872 |
| Elevation | 942 m (3,091 ft) |
| Population (2004) | |
| • Total | 353 |
| • Religions | Sunni Muslim |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Area code(s) | 14 |
Beer Ajam (Arabic: بئر عجم, translit. بئر عجم, also spelled Bir Ajam) is a Syrian Circassian city in the Quneitra Governorate in the Syrian controlled portion of the Golan Heights. It has been inhabited for about 150 years. Its first houses were built in 1872. Nearby localities include Quneitra to the north, Naba al-Sakhr to the northeast, al-Harra to the east, Namer to the southeast and Bariqa to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Beer Ajam had a population of 353 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are Circassians from the Abadzekh and Kebertei tribes.
In the late 19th-century Beer Ajam was described as a large and prosperous Circassian village with 80 hut-like houses and a total population of 340. It was built in separate parts, with springs to the north and next to a pond to the south.
The village was abandoned for almost 10 years after the occupation of the Golan Heights by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. The part of the Golan in which the village is located was returned to Syria as part of the 1974 Israeli disengagement from that area, although its inhabitants did not actually return until the late 1970s.
The government completed construction of new houses in the northern part of the village in 1986 to encourage the population to return. However, half of those houses are still unoccupied. The reconstruction also included another group of villages in the area.
The permanent residents in the village are around 400 Circassians. They are estimated to be only the quarter of what they should be, the rest preferring to stay in the capital or the Diaspora. The gender make up is 55% male and 45% female. About 40% of the population has access to a computer. The average monthly income of a family is about €300 (figures lacked precision).
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