Dhibin

Dhibin (; also spelled Dhaybin or Thibin) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Salkhad District of the Suwayda Governorate. It is located south of Suwayda, near the southern border with Jordan. Nearby localities include Bakka to the north, Salkhad to the northeast, Umm ar-Rumman to the east, Samaj to the west and Samad to the northwest. In the 2004 census it had a population of 2,562. It is the administrative center of the Dhibin Nahiyah, which consisted of three villages with a collective population of 6,900 in 2004. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze, with a Sunni Muslim Bedouin minority.

==History== Dhibin was a mainly grain-growing village in the late 16th century, during Ottoman rule. In the Ottoman tax registers of 1596, it was a village located the nahiya (subdistrict) of Butayna, in the Qadaa of Hauran. It had a population of twelve households and four bachelors, all Muslims. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 1,000 akçe.