Al-Qurayya (Arabic: القريا; also spelled al-Qrayya or Kureiyeh) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the al-Suwayda Governorate, located...

consolidated al-Atrash power. By the early 1880s, the family controlled eighteen villages, chief among which were as-Suwayda, Salkhad, al-Qurayya, 'Ira and...

destroyed the house of Sultan al-Atrash in Al-Qurayya in late August 1922 in response to his attack on their forces, then Sultan al-Atrash led the Druze rebels...

124 towns/villages, and 36 hamlets. Shahba Al-Suwayda Salkhad Shaqqa Al-Ajailat Al-Ghariyah Al-Kefr Al-Qurayya Ariqah Ar-Raha Braiki Dair Allaban Dama Hobran...

"King of the Oud" ("Malek al-Oud"). Al-Atrash was born in 1910, in Al-Qurayya, in southern Syria to the Druze princely al-Atrash family who fought the...

but Ismail gradually established himself as a power in the village of al-Qurayya and maintained virtual independence from the prominent Druze clans. This...

near his hometown of al-Qurayya. Atrash was born 3 February 1925 in the Druze community of al-Qurayya in Jabal al-Druze (Jabal al-Arab), months before...

the Rashidun Caliphate of the Arabs in 629 and became a titular see. Yaqut al-Hamawi noted in the 1220s that As Suwaida was "a village of the Hauran Province"...

1857, Ismail al-Atrash, a Druze sheikh based in al-Qurayya, became the virtual military chief of the Jabal Hauran Druze at the expense of Al Hamdan's authority...

Sultan al-Atrash (Arabic: سلطان الأطرش, romanized: Sulṭān al-ʾAṭrash; 5 March 1891 – 26 March 1982) was a Syrian Druze nationalist revolutionary who led...