Sami‘ (, also spelled Samei or Sumei) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Sami' had a population of 1,097 in the 2004 census.General Census of Population and Housing 2004 . Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Al-Suwayda Governorate. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze.
The village has been identified with Saemeas (Σαεμεας), a locality attested in the Diocletianic boundary stones of the Hauran around 300 CE.
See also Druze in Syria
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