Rimat al-Luhuf (), also known as Rimat al-Fukhour () is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Rimat al-Luhuf had a population of 1,925 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, with a Sunni Muslim Bedouin minority. Most of the Bedouins reside in the northern part of the village, an area known as Al-Manshiyah.
History Rimat al-Luhuf is identified with the ancient village of Rimea, which is attested in inscriptions found in the Roman-era sanctuary of Aumos, a local sun god associated with Zeus, located a few kilometers away at Dayr al-Laban. Two individuals from the village mentioned in the inscriptions are said to belong to a tribe called the Khastenoi.
In 1596 the village appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named Rimat al-Halahil, part of the nahiya (Subdistrict) of Bani Nasiyya in the Hauran Sanjak. It had a Muslim population consisting of 43 households and 17 bachelors, and a Christian population consisting of 14 households and 7 bachelors; a total of 81 taxable units. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat (6000 a.), barley (1800 a.), summer crops (1200 a.), goats and beehives (250 a.), in addition to "occasional revenues" (150 a.); a total of 9,400 akçe. 2/3 of the revenue went to a waqf.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 219.
In 1838, Eli Smith noted that inhabitants of Rimet el-Luhf were predominantly Druse and Catholic Christians.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Second appendix, B, p. 156
Religious buildings Maqam Al-Miqdad ibn Amr (Druze Shrine) Mosque
See also Druze in Syria
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