Daraa District ( Arabic : منطقة درعا ) is a district ( mantiqah ) administratively belonging to Daraa Governorate , Syria . At the 2004 Census it had a population of 428,681. Its administrative centre is the city of Daraa .
4-474: The district of Daraa is divided into eight sub-districts or Nāḥiyas (population according to 2004 official census): This article about a location in Daraa Governorate , Syria is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nahiya A nāḥiyah ( Arabic : نَاحِيَة [ˈnaːħijah] , plural nawāḥī نَوَاحِي [naˈwaːħiː] ), also nahiyeh , nahiya or nahia ,
8-625: A müdür ) and villages ( karye , each governed by a muhtar ). Revisions of 1871 to the administrative law established the nahiye (still governed by a müdür ) as an intermediate level between the kaza and the village. The term was adopted by the Principality of Serbia (1817–1833) and Principality of Montenegro (1852–1910), as nahija ( Serbian Cyrillic : нахија ). Spelled in Persian: ناحيه , it may refer to following settlements: This article about geography terminology
12-494: Is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan , it is a second-level division while in Syria , Iraq , Lebanon , Jordan , Xinjiang , and the former Ottoman Empire , where it was also called a bucak , it is a third-level or lower division. It can constitute a division of a qadaa , mintaqah or other such district -type division and
16-550: Is sometimes translated as " subdistrict ". The nahiye ( Ottoman Turkish : ناحیه ) was an administrative territorial entity of the Ottoman Empire , smaller than a kaza . The head was a mütesellim (governor) who was appointed by the Pasha . The kaza was a subdivision of a sanjak and corresponded roughly to a city with its surrounding villages. Kaza s, in turn, were divided into nahiye s (each governed by
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