Nearby localities include Tarba to the north, Shahba and Salkhad to the northwest, Qanawat to the west and al-Kafr to the southwest.

The town is also the administrative center of the al-Mushannaf nahiyah of the al-Suwayda District consisting of 14 villages with a combined population of 17,134.

[3] The village has a well preserved Roman prostyle temple dating to the first century BC that was dedicated to the gods Zeus and Athena.

[6] The walls are built without binding materials and display beautiful ornaments including capitals and entablature,[7] while the courtyard is paved with flat stones of various sizes.

[5] The temple was excavated in the early 1900s by Howard Crosby Butler and later by Clarence Ward, and was partially restored by the Syrian government.