Chabab

خبب / Ḫabab Chabab
Chabab
Coordinates	33 ° 1 ′  N , 36 ° 16 ′  E Coordinates: 33 ° 1 ′  N , 36 ° 16 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Syria
Governorate	Darʿā
height	605 m
Residents	10,000
Chabab with the Assumption Cathedral

Chabab ( Arabic خبب Chabab , DMG Ḫabab ) is a small town in the Darʿā governorate in the south of Syria with a high Christian population, mostly members of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church . The place has about 10,000 inhabitants.

location

Khabab is located about 57 kilometers south of Damascus in the northern plain of the Hauran . The Damascus expressway reaches the Jordanian border after another 70 kilometers . The next larger city, Dera'a , is 55 kilometers south.

history

Christianity has already had a very long presence in Chabab. The date of construction of the Assumption Cathedral of Chabab, which is considered to be the most important architectural monument of Chabab, is given as the year 900. After the split in the Orthodox Church of the Antiochene Greeks living here at the beginning of the 18th century, Chabab became a Melkite Greek Catholic place. Since 1881 the cathedral has been the seat of the Melkite Archeparchy of Bosra and Hauran in 1881 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Impact of the Current Situation on the Archaeological Sites of Daraa / Syria. Syrians for Truth and Justice, January 30, 2017.
2. ↑ Greek-Melkite Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bosra-Hauran, Syria: Archbishop Elias El-Debei. Gcatholic.org, May 19, 2020, accessed June 8, 2020.