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]
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]