Nahtah () is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Izraa District in the Daraa Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Nahtah had a population of 7,789 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004 . Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.
History In 1596 Nahtah appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Nahta and was part of the nahiya of Bani Malik al-Asraf in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 33 households and 19 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (7500 a.), barley (1800 a.), summer crops (1200 a.), goats and beehives (300 a,), in addition to "occasional revenues" (200 a.); a total of 11,000 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 213.
In 1838, it was noted as being east of ash-Shaykh Miskin, with a Sunni Muslim population.Smith, in Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 152
Religious buildings Omar Al-Farooq Mosque Ammar ibn Yasir Mosque Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib Mosque Old Mosque (abandoned)
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External links El Karak-map; 21m