Bir Ajam

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Beer Ajam (Arabic: بئر عجم, romanized: Biʾr ʿAjam, lit. 'Non-Arabs' Spring', also spelled Bir Ajam) is a Syrian Circassian village in the Quneitra Governorate in the Golan Heights. It has been inhabited for about 150 years. Its first houses were built in 1872. Nearby localities include Quneitra to the north, Naba al-Sakhr to the northeast, al-Harra to the east, Namer to the southeast and Bariqa to the south. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Beer Ajam had a population of 353 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are Circassians from the Abadzekh and Kebertei tribes. In the late 19th-century Beer Ajam was described as a large and prosperous Circassian village with 80 hut-like houses and a total population of 340. It was built in separate parts, with springs to the north and next to a pond to the south. The village also housed one mosque. The village was abandoned for almost 10 years after the occupation of the Golan Heights by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.