Beer Ajam

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Beer ajam in Arabic [http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/بئر_عجم بئر عجم] is a Circassian village in the province of Quneitra - in Syria in the Golan Heights. It is inhabited now for nearly 150 years. Its first houses where built back in 1872. Its population are Abadzekh and Kebertei tribes.

Displacement and reconstruction

The village was abandoned for almost 10 years after the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights in 1967. The occupied part of the Golan in which the village is located was liberated after the October War in 1973, however people did not actually come back until the late 1970s.

The government completed a construction of new houses in the north of the village in 1986 to encourage the population to return, but a significant number of those houses are still unoccupied. half of the old houses are still empty. The reconstruction also included another group of villages in the area.

Population

The permanent residents in the village are around 400. They are estimated to be only the quarter of what they should be, the rest preferred to stay in the capital or the Diaspora. 55% Male, female 45%, 40% have access to a computer. The average monthly income of a family is about 300€ (figures lacked precision).

In summer, tourist activity raises significantly, it doubles of even triples, some come relatives some are from other villages that are still occupied.

the village is recently enjoying some real estate activity, housing project are taking place, and many new business opportunities are being created.

Nature and wildlife

Enjoy the village ambience moderate in the summer tend to cold in the winter, and the advantage of being surrounded by forests from most of its perimeter, where the spreading oak trees and oaks and Butm and Azaapop and some kinds of wild peach, pear, and there are wild animals including fox and the Jackal, pork and wild Gharbra and others, in addition to several types of birds, including album and Hoopoe and swallow the place and league and Arur.Exposed animal diversity (narrow) to a continuous decline, which threatens to eliminate it completely, there are no clear reasons but it is believed that the decline in the area covered by vegetation in addition to the expansion of human activity and the opening of more roads contribute greatly to isolate Bekaa narrow remaining wildlife.

Agriculture and Livestock Production

Agriculture focused on olive trees, grapes, almonds and lei, the animal production depends on cows, which constitute the source of income for many families. Poultry, sheep, in addition to widespread beekeeping.