Heeneh (Arabic: حينة) is a
Syrian village in the
Qatana District of the
Rif Dimashq Governorate . According to the
Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Hinah had a population of 1,524 in the 2004 census.
History
The presence of Druze around Mount Hermon is documented since the founding of the Druze religion in the beginning of the 11th century.
Historical geographer Samuel Klein has pointed out that in the immediate environs of Heeneh and Rimah there is a large reservoir (birket ) containing more than 500 cubic metres (500,000 L) of water for irrigation of crops.
In 1838, Eli Smith noted Heeneh's population as Druze and Orthodox Christians .
References
^ General Census of Population and Housing 2004 . Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. (in Arabic) ^ Roy Marom , “Sukayk and al-Summāqah: Mamluk Rural Geography in the Northern Jawlān/Golan Heights in the Light of Qāytbāy’s Endowment Deeds, ” in Kate Raphael and Mustafa Abbasi (ed.s), The Golan in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods: an Archaeological and Historical Study: Excavations at Naʿarān and Farj, In Honour of Moshe Hartal, Yigal Ben Ephraim and Shuqri ‘Arra f, Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion Volume xiv (2024): 67^ *Klein, S. (1934). "Notes on History of Large Estates in Palestine". Yediot - Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society . 1 : 5– 7.
^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 139
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