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Village in as-Suwayda, Syria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Kharaba (Arabic: خربا) also spelled Kharraba or Kherba, is a village in southeastern Syria, administratively part of the as-Suwayda District of the as-Suwayda Governorate, located southwest of as-Suwayda city and northeast of Daraa. In the 2004 census, it had a population of 581.[1] Its inhabitants are predominantly Greek Orthodox Christians.[2][3]

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The residents were displaced from the village during the early years of the Syrian Civil War and were only able to return in May of 2020.[4]

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Religious buildings

  • St. George of the Greek Orthodox Church
  • Transguration Melkite Greek Catholic Church
  • National Evangelical Presbyterian Church
  • St. Lazarus Church
  • St. Mary the Egyptian Church (Archeological church)

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