Ghazam
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غصم Ghazam |
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 45 ' N , 36 ° 23' E | ||
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| Country | Syria | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | SY-DR | ||
| height | 531 m | ||
| Residents | 3666 (2004) | ||
Ghasam , also Ghasm ( Arabic غصم, DMG Ġaṣam ), is a city in Dar'a Governorate in southwest Syria .
location
Ghasam is northeast of Daraa and west of Bosra . Other nearby towns are Maarbah in the east, al-Sahwah in the north, al-Jiza in the west and al-Mataaiya in the south.
history
Gottlieb Schumacher reported that in 1895 he used the Roman road from Umm-el-Meyädin to Ghasm.
In the village there are ruins of a Byzantine church that was consecrated to Bakchos and Sergios in 593 . The Sunni al-Miqdad family lived in this area
In 1596 Ghasm appears in the Ottoman tax register as Gasim and was part of the Nahiya of Butayna in the Sanjak (Ottoman Empire) of Hauran .
The tour group to which Schumacher belonged was told by villagers that members of the Druze had plundered Ghasam in 1893 and had been paid 200 mejidiehs for the watering in 1894.