The Ammiyya[1] (Arabic: الثورة العامية في جبل حوران, althawrat aleamiat fi jabal hawran, or Arabic: ʿĀmmiyya) was a revolt against Ottoman rule in Syria in 1889–1890. The tenant farmers and farmworkers sought to curb the abuses of local sheikhs, restricting them to ⅛ of the communal land. They also wanted to partition the rest of the communal land into individual plots outside the sheikh's control, ending their ability to evict poor farmers.[2]

Druze opposition was led by the Atrash family.[3]

The revolt was largely successful in its aims, restricting the sheikhs to ⅛ of the village land[4] and establishing the system of land tenure which continued in Syria through the Assad regime.[2] Desire to placate the locals also prompted the concessions to French and Belgian companies that led to the DHP, the area's first railway.[1]

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  1. 1 2 Schilcher (1998), p. 104.
  2. 1 2 Forni (2003), p. 312.
  3. ↑ Swayd 2015, p. 22.
  4. ↑ Provence, §14.

Bibliography

  • Forni, Nadia (2003), "Land Tenure and Labour Relations", in Fiorillo, Ciro; Vercueil, Jacques (eds.), Syrian Agriculture at the Crossroads, FAO Agricultural Policy and Economic Development Series, No. 8, Rome: FAO, pp. 309–334, ISBN 92-5-104990-4.
  • Provence, Michael, "An Investigation into the Local Origins of the Great Revolt", France, Syrie, et Liban 1918--1946, pp. 377–393.
  • Schilcher, Linda S. (1998), "Railways in the Political Economy of Southern Syria 1890–1925", The Syrian Land: Processes of Integration and Fragmentation: Bilād al-Shām from the 18th to the 20th Century, Berliner Islamstudien [Islamic Studies in Berlin], Vol. 6, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 97–112, ISBN 3-515-07309-4.
  • Swayd, Samy (10 March 2015), Historical Dictionary of the Druzes, ISBN 9781442246171.


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