Al-Rafid, Syria

This article is about the Syrian town. For other uses, see Rafid (disambiguation).

Town in Quneitra, Syria

Al-Rafid

الرفيد

Town

Al-Rafid

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Coordinates: 32°57′18″N 35°54′5″E﻿ / ﻿32.95500°N 35.90139°E﻿ / 32.95500; 35.90139
Grid position| 234/262 PAL
Country| Syria
Governorate| Quneitra
District| Quneitra
Subdistrict| Khishniyah
Control| Israel
Population

(2004 census)[1]

• Total

| 2,263
Time zone| UTC+3 (AST)

Al-Rafid (Arabic: الرفيد) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Quneitra Governorate (Golan Heights), in the portion of the province under the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force Zone. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Rafid had a population of 2,263 in the 2004 census.[1] By June 2015, the population had increased to roughly 7,100 (of whom 3,100 were IDPs from the surrounding region).[2]

Transhumance shaped settlement in the Golan for centuries because of its harsh winters. The winters "forced tribespeople until the 19th century to live in hundreds of rudimentary 'winter villages' in their tribal territory. Starting in the second part of the 19th century, villages like al-Rafid became "fixed and formed the nucleus of fully sedentary life in the 20th century Golan."[3] The inhabitants largely belong to the Na'im tribe, which has been established in the Golan region since the 15th–16th centuries.[4]

The town has been claimed by pro-Assadist forces during the Syrian Civil War.[5]

## References

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1. ^ a b "General Census of Population 2004". Retrieved 2014-07-10.
2. ^ "Southern Syria: Population & Internally Displaced Persons - June 2015 (5 July 2015) - Syrian Arab Republic | ReliefWeb". reliefweb.int. 2015-07-13. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
3. ^ Roy Marom, “Sukayk and al-Summāqah: Mamluk Rural Geography in the Northern Jawlān/Golan Heights in the Light of Qāytbāy’s Endowment Deeds,” in Kate Raphael and Mustafa Abbasi (ed.s), The Golan in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods: an Archaeological and Historical Study: Excavations at Naʿarān and Farj, In Honour of Moshe Hartal, Yigal Ben Ephraim and Shuqri ‘Arraf, Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion Volume xiv (2024): 69-70.
4. ^ Assaf, Faten (7 July 2010). "قبيلة "النعيم"... "أنا راعي الصفرا" (Al-Naim Tribe... I am the Yellow Shepherd)" (in Arabic). Retrieved 20 December 2024.
5. ^ Awad, Ammar; Lubell, Maayan; al Khalidi, Suleiman (July 26, 2018). Bolton, Andrew (ed.). "Syrian flag raised in Quneitra on Syrian side of Golan Heights". Reuters. "Pro-Assad forces have raised the flag in several other towns along the frontier, including al Hamidiyah and Rafid, that overlooks a U.N. observation post."

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Quneitra Governorate of Syria

Quneitra District|

* Quneitra
* Asbah
* al-Asha
* Ayn al-Tineh
* Ayyuba
* Bariqa
* al-Bassa al-Sharqiya–Ayn Qadi
* Beer Ajam
* Ghadir al-Bustan
* Hader
* Hajja
* Khan Arnabah
* Kudna
* Kum al-Basha
* Kum al-Wasiyya–Marj Barghut
* Jabah
* Jubata al-Khashab
* Maalaqah
* Madinat al-Salam
* Masharah
* Mamtana
* Naba al-Sakher
* Qarqas
* al-Qahtaniyah
* al-Qasibah
* al-Rafid
* Ruwayhina
* al-Suwaysah
* Tirinja
* al-Ufaniya
* Umm Batinah

Fiq District|

* Sayda

Syrian localities in
Israeli-occupied Golan Heights|

| Populated|

* Buq'ata
* Ein Qiniyye
* Ghajar
* Majdal Shams
* Mas'ade

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Depopulated|

* Al-Ahmadiyah
* Al-'Al
* Almin
* 'Ayn Fit
* Ain Hamra
* Ain Ziwan
* al-Birah
* al-Butayha
* Dabburah
* Dalwa
* Dayr Aziz
* Dayr Siras
* al-Eshshah
* Fiq
* Hafar
* Hatal
* Jabbin
* Jawziah
* Jubata ez-Zeit
* Kafr Harib
* Kafr al-Ma
* Kafr Naffakh
* Khisfin
* Khushniyeh
* Khokhah
* Kisrin
* Mansura
* Qarahta
* Er-Ramthaniyye
* Saffuriyah
* Shayta
* al-Sindiyanah
* Skufiyah
* as-Summaqah
* Umm al-Dananir
* Za'ura

Israeli settlements in the
Israeli-occupied Golan Heights|

| Town|

* Katzrin

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Kibbutzim|

* Afik
* Ein Zivan
* Ein Gev
* El Rom
* Gadot
* Geshur
* Kfar Haruv
* Ma'agan
* Merom Golan
* Metzar
* Mevo Hama
* Mishmar HaYarden
* Natur
* Ortal
* Snir
* Tel Katzir

Moshavim|

* Alonei HaBashan
* Ani'am
* Avnei Eitan
* Bnei Yehuda
* Eliad
* Givat Yoav
* Haspin
* Kanaf
* Keshet
* Kidmat Tzvi
* Ma'ale Gamla
* Neot Golan
* Neve Ativ
* Nimrod
* Nov
* Odem
* Ramat Magshimim
* Ramot
* Sha'al
* Yonatan

Community settlements|

* Kela Alon
* Had Nes
* HaOn
* Trump Heights

Israeli settlements in italics were on the Mandatory Palestine side of the 1923 border.
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