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Rimat Hazem

Rimat Hazem () is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Suwayda District of the Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Rimat Hazem had a population of 1,627 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze, with a Sunni Muslim Bedouin minority.

History

In 1596 the village appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named Rimat Hazim, part of the nahiya (Subdistrict) of Bani Sarma in the Hauran Sanjak. It had a Muslim population consisting of 19 households and 8 bachelors; a total of 27 taxable units. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat (2250 a.), barley (900 a.), summer crops (650 a.), goats and beehives (100 a.); a total of 4,000 akçe.

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