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Rakham
Rakham ( ) is a village in the Hauran plain of southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Rakham had a population of 547 in the 2004 census. It is located 40 km northeast of Daraa. Populated periodically since the 1st millennium BC, its inhabitants are predominantly Christian, with a Sunni Muslim minority. Not to be mistaken for: Zawyet umm el-Rakham in Egypt, the Jabal ar Rukham mountain in Oman and the UAE, or the Ar Rukham plain in Kuwait - after which are named the nearby Sha'ib (wadi) and Dulay (hill).
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Rakham ( ) is a village in the Hauran plain of southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Rakham had a population of 547 in the 2004 census. It is located 40 km northeast of Daraa. Populated periodically since the 1st millennium BC, its inhabitants are predominantly Christian, with a Sunni Muslim minority. Not to be mistaken for: Zawyet umm el-Rakham in Egypt, the Jabal ar Rukham mountain in Oman and the UAE, or the Ar Rukham plain in Kuwait - after which are named the nearby Sha'ib (wadi) and Dulay (hill).
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