Town in southern Syria
Town in Rif Dimashq, Syria
Kafr Batna
(
Arabic
:
??? ????
, also spelled
Kfar Batna
and
Kafar Batna
) is a town in the
Rif Dimashq Governorate
in southern
Syria
and a suburb of
Damascus
.
[1]
[2]
It is approximately 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) east of the
Bab Sharqi
neighborhood.
[3]
Kafr Batna had a population of 22,535 in 2004.
[4]
History
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Kafr Batna's name suggests it was previously an
Aramaean
village during the
Iron Age
.
[1]
During a
Qaysi
revolt against the
Abbasid
governor of Syria, Qaysi rebels led by Muhammad ibn Bayhas camped out in the town in 842 CE before proceeding to Damascus. There, they attracted the support of other villages in the
Ghouta
region which aided them in their failed insurrection.
[5]
Yaqut al-Hamawi
visited the town in 1226, during
Ayyubid
rule, and described it as "a village in the Ghautah of Damascus, in the Iklim (District) of
Da'iyyah
." He also noted that some members of the
Umayyad
tribe, which ruled Syria until the mid-8th-century, still lived in Kafr Batna.
[6]
The
Ottoman Empire
annexed Syria including Kafr Batna in the early 16th-century and continued to rule until 1918. In the mid-18th-century, a prominent businessman and scholar from
Hamah
, Abd al-Qadir al-Kaylani, endowed large swathes of farmland property in Kafr Batna in a
waqf
(religious endowment) to be supervised by his wife al-Sharifa Rahmana.
[7]
During the Ottoman period, a Sheikh Muhammad ibn Isa al-Qari' endowed a share of his vineyards in the town which was supervised by members of his family.
[8]
Syrian uprising
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Some of Kafr Batna's inhabitants have participated on the side of the opposition during the
2011-2012 Syrian uprising
against the government in Syria. On 29 January 2012,
Syrian Army
tanks entered the suburb to force out rebels from the opposition
Free Syrian Army
(FSA) who were positioned there. Although it has not been verified, opposition activists reported that five FSA soldiers and 14 civilians,
[9]
including at least one minor,
[2]
were killed during the raid.
[9]
On 4 February 2013, it was reported that the suburb was taken over by the rebels as part of a large push into the capital
[10]
On 5 February 2018, the military launched airstrikes on the town. The attack killed 78 people, mostly civilians, including 19 children.
[11]
On 17 March, the Syrian army captured Kafr Batna.
[12]
References
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- ^
a
b
Burns, 2005, pp.
14
-15
- ^
a
b
Siddique, Haroon.
Syrian troops battle to retake Damascus suburbs
.
The Guardian
. 2012-02-29. Retrieved on 2012-02-19.
- ^
Oriental Ceramic Society, 1998, p.24
- ^
General Census of Population and Housing 2004
.
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics
(CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate.
(in Arabic)
- ^
Cobb, 2001, p.
97
- ^
le Strange, 1890, p.
469
- ^
Reilly, 2002, p. 36
- ^
el-Zawahreh, 1995, p.184
- ^
a
b
Forces battle to retake Damascus suburbs
.
The Daily Star
. 2012-01-30. Retrieved on 2012-02-19.
- ^
"Syrian forces kill dozens in bombardments: opposition"
.
Reuters
. 13 January 2013.
- ^
Eassa, Abdulmonam; Mojon, Jean-Marc.
"78 reported killed in regime strikes on Syria rebel enclave"
.
AFP via Times of Israel
. Retrieved
2023-01-01
.
- ^
"Fears for the lives of civilians after the regime forces advanced in the southwestern pocket of the Eastern Ghouta under heavy fire cover"
.
SOHR
. 17 March 2018
. Retrieved
17 March
2018
.
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