Maghar al-Mir (; also known as al-Mughr or Mugher al-Mir) is a Syrian village in the Qatana District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Maghar al-Mir had a population of 588 at the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004 . Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. Its inhabitants are predominantly from the Druze community.
The presence of Druze around Mount Hermon is documented since the founding of the Druze religion in the beginning of the 11th century.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 ‘Arraf, Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion Volume xiv (2024): 67 The village was founded in the 1930s by settlers from the villages of Ayn al-Burj and Hinah. Maghar al-Mir had an Olympian come out of their country namely Zid Abou Hamed, the Australian-Syrian hurdler.
See also Druze in Syria
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