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Jasim ((アラビア語:جاسم), also spelled Jassem) is a small city in the Izra' District of the Daraa Governorate in southern Syria. It is located 41 kilometers north of Daraa and is near the towns of Nawa to the south, Kafr Shams to the north, Inkhil to the northeast and al-Harra to the northwest. In the 2004 census by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Jasim had a population of 31,683.〔(General Census of Population and Housing 2004 ). Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Daraa Governorate. 〕 ==History== During the Byzantine-era in Syria, Jasim was a seat of the Monophysite church in 570. It was controlled and populated by the Ghassanid Arabs, a vassal kingdom of the Byzantine Empire.〔Shahid, 2002, pp. (228 )-229.〕 There were five monasteries affiliated with the Monophysites located in the town.〔Shahid, 2002, p. (184 )〕 The Ghassanid king Nu'man was buried in between Jasim and nearby Tubna.〔 The 10th-century Arab historian al-Masudi wrote that Jasim belonged to Damascus and was located "between Damascus and the Jordan Province, in a district called al-Khaulan. Jasim is a few miles from al-Jabiya, and from the territory of Nawa, where is the Pasturage of Job."〔le Strange, 1890, p. (463 ).〕 Jasim was visited by Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi in the early 13th-century during Ayyubid rule. Al-Hamawi wrote that the place was named after "Jasim, son of Iram ibn Sam (Shem) ibn Nuh (Noah) who visited it at the time of the destruction of the Tower of Babel." He further noted that Jasim was a town in Damascus Province, "lying 8 leagues from Damascus, on the right of the high-road to Tabbariyah ()."〔 In 1596 Jasim appeared in the Ottoman tax registers being in the ''nahiya'' of Jaydur in the Qada of Hauran. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 28 households and 14 bachelors. Taxes were paid for wheat, barley and summer crops.〔Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 207.〕 Many of the inhabitants of nearby al-Harra originate from Jasim.〔Schumacher, 1897, p. (190 ).〕 The city is home to the Arab tribe of al-Halqiyyin. Prominent 20th-century Arab socialist leader Akram al-Hawrani descends from the tribe, members of which settled in Homs.〔Batatu, 1999, p. (370 )〕 In the 1870s Gottlieb Schumacher noted that Jasim was one of the largest villages in its region with a population of 1,000 living in 215 huts. He reported finding several ancient remains, particularly stone crosses from the Byzantine era.〔Schumacher, 1897, p. (194 ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jasim」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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