Al-Ahmadiyah

El-Ahmediye () also known as el-Hamediyeh or Ammudiya, is a former Syrian village in the central Golan Heights, 15 kilometers southeast of Lake Hula. It was populated during the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six-Day War. The village spread over two low-lying hills surrounded by springs. The Israeli settlement of Qatzrin was established two kilometres to the south. Al-Ahmadiyah's previous inhabitants had predominantly been Turkomans.

==History and archaeology== ===Archaeological investigation=== The first archaeological survey of al-Ahmadiyah was undertaken by Gottlieb Schumacher in 1884. He noted that the villages stood at the foot of a hill, Shuwaikah, which contained ancient remains, dated by Schumacher to the Roman era, as indicated by the carved stone reliefs of Roman eagles and other animals. Another survey, in 1968, this time by Israeli archaeologist Shmarya Guttman, found items from the Hellenistic period, and more sherds from the Roman and Byzantine periods. Guttman determined that the size of the ancient settlement spanned 35 dunams.