Urman, Syria
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Urman عرمان Orman, Arman |
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 Urman
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| Coordinates: 32°30′40″N 36°45′42″E / 32.51111°N 36.76167°E | |
| Country |
 Syria
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| Governorate | As-Suwayda |
| District | Salkhad |
| Subdistrict | Salkhad |
| Population (2004) | |
| • Total | 5,735 |
Urman (Arabic: عرمان; also spelled Orman or Arman) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Salkhad District of the al-Suwayda Governorate. It is located south of al-Suwayda and nearby localities include Salkhad to the west, Awas to the south, Malah to the east and Sahwat al-Khudr to the north. In the 2004 census it had a population of 5,735.
Byzantine-era ruins and artifacts have been found in Urman. However, unlike other towns in the vicinity, Urman's inhabitants did not convert to Christianity by the 4th century, as indicated by an absence of Christian symbols and edifices. Paganism was practiced in the village until at least 517, as evidenced by stone inscriptions from Urman. There were Arab tribesmen in the village, but it is not clear if they formed all or part of the population.
In 1596, Urman appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Malik as-Sadir, in the qadaa (district) of Hauran. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of seventeen households and seven bachelors. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats, beehives and a water-mill; the taxes totaled 16,500 akçe.
Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt visited Orman in 1810 and noted that it was a deserted site. However, by the 1870s, the village was a large village settled by the Druze, who had migrated from Mount Lebanon. Urman was a village dominated by the Bani al-Atrash clan and in the 1870s, its sheikhs (chieftains) were Najm al-Atrash and his son Ibrahim. In the 1880s, migrants from the village of Jarmaq in the Galilee settled in Urman. They came to be known as the "al-Jarmaqani" family after their ancestral village. In 1889–1890, Urman was one of the four villages in the southern Jabal al-Arab mountainous region whose peasants rebelled against the al-Atrash sheikhs during the Ammiyya revolt. The village's rebel leader was Ibrahim al-Jarmaqani. The village was restored to al-Atrash control, but many of its peasant inhabitants came to become landowners independent from the al-Atrash sheikhs.
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