Jubayb

Jubayb جبيب Jbaib, Jbeb, Jbib
Village
Jubayb
Coordinates: 32°37′25″N 36°25′40″E / 32.62361°N 36.42778°E / 32.62361; 36.42778
PAL	284/226
Country	Syria
Governorate	Suwayda
District	Suwayda
Subdistrict	Suwayda
Population  (2004 census)
• Total	253
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Jubayb (Arabic: جبيب) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Suwayda District of the Suwayda Governorate. According to the 2004 census, Jubayb had a population of 253.^[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Christians, with a Sunni Muslim minority.^[2][3]

History

In 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers under the name of Jib, being part of the nahiya of Butayna in the Qadaa Hauran. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 15 households and 5 bachelors. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat (1500 a.), barley (450 a.), summer crops (10 a.), goats and bee-hives (560 a.), winter pastures (600 a.), in addition to "occasional revenues" (600 a.); a total of 3,720 akçe. 1/6 of this was waqf income.^[4]

Demographics

According to statistics from 1927, Jubayb had a population consisting of a Christian majority of 407 inhabitants and a Sunni Muslim minority of 26.^[5]

In 2011, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church had approximately 150 believers.^[6]

Religious buildings

• The Saviour/Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church^[7][8]
• St. Nicholas Melkite Greek Catholic Church^[9][10]
• Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque

See also

• Christians in Syria

References

1. "General Census of Population 2004". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2014-07-10.
2. اتفاق بوساطة روسية يعيد سكان قرية مسيحية في درعا. enabbaladi (in Arabic). 2025-08-01. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
3. Betts, Robert Brenton (1988). The Druze. New Haven : Yale University Press.
4. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 214
5. Betts, 1988, p. 60
6. https://www.melkitepat.org/melkite_greek_catholic_church/Metropole-of-Bosra-and-Hauran
7. https://albishara.net/church/details/3115
8. https://albishara.net/church/details/3118
9. https://albishara.net/church/details/3131
10. https://www.melkitepat.org/melkite_greek_catholic_church/Metropole-of-Bosra-and-Hauran

Bibliography

• Hütteroth, W.-D.; Abdulfattah, K. (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.

External links

• Bosra-map; 22M