Al-Karak () is a Syrian village in Daraa District in Daraa Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Karak had a population of 10,510 in the 2004 census.
History In 1596, Al-Karak appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as 'Karak al-Bathaniyya'; part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani Malik al-Ashraf in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 45 households and 71 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (10800 akçe), barley (1800), summer crops (4200), goats and beehives (1700), in addition to "occasional revenues"(1500); a total of 20,000 akçe. 5/24 of the revenue went to a waqf.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 212
In 1838, it was noted as a Sunni Muslim village, situated "In the Nukrah, South of Eshmiskin",Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 151 the Nukrah being the southern Hauran plain.
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External links El Karak-map; 21m