Za'ura, Syria

Za'ura
زعورة
Village
Za'ura is located in the Golan Heights
Za'ura
Za'ura
Coordinates: 33°13′08″N 35°42′36″E / 33.218845°N 35.709916°E / 33.218845; 35.709916
Country Syria
GovernorateQuneitra
DistrictQuneitra
RegionGolan Heights
Destroyed1967[1]

Za'ura (Arabic: زعورة), was a Syrian Alawite village situated in the northwestern Golan Heights.[2][3]

The German explorer Ulrich Jasper Seetzen visited Za'ura in 1806 during his travels in the region.[4]

In 1888 the village consisted of 65 dwellings and 350 residents.[5] They grew rice in the Hula marshes and tobacco around the village.[5]

Before 1967, it was one of three mainly Alawite villages in the Golan Heights together with 'Ayn Fit and Ghajar.[3] After Israel occupied the area in the Six-Day War, they began destroying Syrian villages in the Golan Heights.[6] Za'ura was destroyed in 1967.[7]

  1. ^ Sulimani & Kletter 2022, p. 50
  2. ^ "Golan Heights and vicinity : October 1994". The Library of Congress. 1994-01-01. Retrieved 2024-08-14. (Za'ura shown as an abandoned/dismantled Syrian village)
  3. ^ a b Abu Fakhr, Sakr (2000). "Voices from the Golan". Journal of Palestine Studies. 29 (4): 5–36. doi:10.2307/2676559. JSTOR 2676559.
  4. ^ Winter, Stefan (2016). A History of the 'Alawis: From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic. Princeton University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-691-17389-4. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
  5. ^ a b Schumacher, Gottlieb (1888). The Jaulân: Surveyed for the German Society for the Exploration of the Holy Land. London: Richard Bentley and Son. p. 272.
  6. ^ Sulimani & Kletter 2022, pp. 55–56
  7. ^ Sulimani & Kletter 2022, p. 50