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Tubna (, also spelled Tubnah) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the as-Sanamayn District in the Daraa Governorate. It is situated 650 meters (2,130 ft) above sea level, about 58 km south of Damascus and 42 km north of Daraa, in the Hauran plain. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Tubna had a population of 1,272 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Melkite Greek Catholic Christians.

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Place details

Locality
تبنة
Region
محافظة درعا
Country
سوريا

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Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Tubna
Settlement.native_name
تبنة
Settlement.other_name
Tubnah
Settlement.settlement_type
Village
Settlement.image_skyline
Marjaorgios Church in the Citadel of Tubna.jpg
Settlement.image_caption
St. George Church in Tubna, 2009
Settlement.pushpin_map
Syria
Settlement.pushpin_label_position
bottom
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
250
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location in Syria
Settlement.grid_position
264/266
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Governorate
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Daraa
Settlement.subdivision_type2
District
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Sanamayn
Settlement.subdivision_type3
Subdistrict
Settlement.subdivision_name3
Sanamayn

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Wikidata facts

Official name
تبنة
Country
Syria
Population
4000
Elevation
650
Image
Marjaorgios Church in the Citadel of Tubna.jpg
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Tubna
native label
تبنة
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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • History
  • Early history
  • Ottoman era
  • Demographics
  • Religious buildings
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

Tubna (, also spelled Tubnah) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the as-Sanamayn District in the Daraa Governorate. It is situated 650 meters (2,130 ft) above sea level, about 58 km south of Damascus and 42 km north of Daraa, in the Hauran plain. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Tubna had a population of 1,272 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Melkite Greek Catholic Christians.

==Etymology== Tubna is a word derived from the word ‘tibn’ (straw), due to the abundance of livestock there.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tubna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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