Akrad Ibrahim أكراد إبراهيم | |
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Village | |
  Akrad Ibrahim Location in Syria | |
| Coordinates:34°59′N36°28′E / 34.983°N 36.467°E /34.983; 36.467 | |
| Country |  Syria |
| Governorate | Hama |
| District | Hama |
| Subdistrict | Hirbnafsah |
| Population (2004) | |
• Total | 698 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| City Qrya Pcode | C3046 |
Akrad Ibrahim (Arabic:أكراد إبراهيم,romanized: Akrād Ibrāhīm) is a village in centralSyria, administratively part of theHirbnafsah Subdistrict ofHama District. According to theSyria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Akrad Ibrahim had a population of 698 in the 2004 census.[1]
The original settlement of Akrad Ibrahim was founded in the early 19th century byKurdish tribesmen, along withAkrad Dayasinah, according to the Syrian historianWasfi Zakariyya. These tribesmen were likely associated withMulla Isma'il, the local strongman of the Hama region in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who was a Kurdish officer of theDalat cavalry.[2] In anOttoman government record from 1818, Akrad Ibrahim was listed as a grain-growing village of theHama Sanjak. It consisted of 50feddans and paid 5,280qirsh in taxes, as well as 2,127 qirsh in illegal exactions to themutasallim ofHama,Faraj Agha. At the time, themultazims (tax farmers) of Akrad Ibrahim were locals from the village.[3]
In the late 19th or early 20th centuries, Akrad Ibrahim's inhabitants sold or 'ceded' all or most of their lands to theurban notables of Hama. By the early 1930s, the prominent Kaylani family of Hama were the owners of the village and the inhabitants wereAlawite tenant farmers.[4]
