Al-Sahwah

Al-Sahwah (, also spelled el-Sahoa or Sahweh); also known as Sahwat al-Qamh or Sehwet el-Kamh is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located east of Daraa. Nearby localities include al-Jiza to the southwest, Ghasm to the south, Maaraba, Daraa to the southeast, Umm Walad to the northeast, al-Musayfirah to the north and Kahil to the west. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Sahwah had a population of 3,950 in the 2004 census, making it the least populous locality in the al-Musayfirah nahiyah ("subdistrict").

==History== In 1596 al-Sahwah appeared in the Ottoman tax registers under the name of Sahwat al-Qamh, as being part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Butayna in the Qada Hauran. It had a Muslim population consisting of 9 households and 4 bachelors. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and/or beehives; a total of 3,300 akçe.