The Ammiyya[1] (
Arabic: الثورة العامية في جبل حوران, althawrat aleamiat fi jabal hawran, or
Arabic: ʿĀmmiyya) was a revolt against
Ottoman rule in
Syria in 1889–1890. The tenant farmers and farmworkers sought to curb the abuses of local
sheikhs, restricting them to one eighth of the communal land. They also wanted to partition the rest of the communal land into individual plots outside the sheikh's control, ending their ability to evict poor farmers.[2]
The revolt was largely successful in its aims, restricting the sheikhs to one eighth of the village land[4] and establishing the system of land tenure which continued in Syria through the
Assad regime.[2] Desire to placate the locals also prompted the concessions to
French and
Belgian companies that led to the
DHP, the area's first railway.[1]
See also
Long Depression, the economic depression at the time which caused falling prices for
Hawran wheat