Abdin عابدين | |
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Village | |
  Abdin | |
| Coordinates:32°46′46″N35°49′27″E / 32.77944°N 35.82417°E /32.77944; 35.82417 | |
| Grid position | 227/242PAL |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Daraa |
| District | Daraa |
| Subdistrict | Shajara |
| Population (2004 census)[1] | |
• Total | 1,454 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Abdin (Arabic:عابدين,romanized: ʿAbdīn, also transliteratedAbdeen orAbidin) is a village in southernSyria, administratively part of theDaraa Governorate, located west ofDaraa. According to theSyria Central Bureau of Statistics, Abdin had a population of 1,454 in the 2004 census.[1] The village was listed in 16th-centuryOttoman tax records. It was abandoned at an unknown point and reestablished byAlgerian immigrants associated with the exiled Algerian resistance leaderEmir Abdelkader in the mid-19th century.[2]
In 1596 Abdin appeared in theOttomantax registers as part of thenahiya (subdistrict) of Jawlan Sharqi in theQada of Hauran. It had an allMuslim population consisting of 12 households and 8 bachelors. A fixed tax−rate of 25% was paid on wheat (7,050akçe), barley (3,150 a.), summer crops (1,890 a.), goats and/or beehives (500), in addition to taxes on a water mill (30 a.) and occasional revenues (500 a.); a total of 13,000 akçe.[3]
Beginning in 1847, waves ofAlgerians, particularly those associated with the anti-colonial leaderAbdelkader al-Djezairi, escaping persecution, war or hardships underFrench rule in their country arrived inOttoman Syria. During this first wave (1847–1860), many of the Algerian immigrants were allocated lands by the Ottoman authorities in theHauran plain andJabal Ajlun hills.[4] Among the villages they settled was Abdin.[5]
In the 1880sGottlieb Schumacher noted Abdin was a medium-sized village of 150 inhabitants. Its thirty-six huts were built of stone or mud. The village water was supplied by a nearby spring and the lands around it were fertile and cultivated.[6] Thesheikh of Abdin had an ancientbasaltic block inscribed inGreek in the grounds of his home.[7] In the village's vicinity was a ruinedmosque, which Schumacher called Jami' Abdin, abutted by a square tower measuring about 12 feet (3.7 m) high and well-built of basaltic blocks.[8]
Around 1927, between 150 and 200 Algerians from the village ofSha'ara nearTiberias were resettled in Abdin after their village was sold by Abdelkader's son, theDamascus-based emir Sa'id, to a Jewish settlement organization.[5]
TheFDI entered the settlement in September 2025.[citation needed]
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