Al Thaala
Al-Thaalah (, also spelled '''Al-Tha'lah or Ath-Thaalah'''), is a Syrian village located in the Suwayda District of the Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Thaalah had a population of 4,569 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.
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Al-Thaalah (, also spelled '''Al-Tha'lah or Ath-Thaalah'), is a Syrian village located in the Suwayda District of the Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Thaalah had a population of 4,569 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.
==History== In 1596, Al-Thaalah appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Ta'la; part of the nahiya of Bani Nasiyya'' in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 30 households and 12 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on various agricultural products, including wheat (10500 akçe), barley (2250), summer crops (1500), goats and beehives (500), in addition to "occasional revenues"(250); a total of 15,000 akçe.