Abdin, Daraa Governorate

Abdin
عابدين
Village
Abdin
Coordinates: 32°46′46″N 35°49′27″E / 32.77944°N 35.82417°E / 32.77944; 35.82417
Grid position227/242 PAL
Country Syria
GovernorateDaraa
DistrictDaraa
SubdistrictShajara
Population
 (2004 census)
  Total
1,454
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Abdin (Arabic: عابدين, romanized: ʿAbdīn, also transliterated Abdeen or Abidin) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Daraa Governorate, located west of Daraa. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Abdin had a population of 1,454 in the 2004 census. The village was listed in 16th-century Ottoman tax records. It was abandoned at an unknown point and reestablished by Algerian immigrants associated with the exiled Algerian resistance leader Emir Abdelkader in the mid-19th century.