Aqraba (Arabic: عقربا; transliteration: ʿAqrabāʾ, also spelled Akraba or Aqrabah) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the al-Sanamayn District of the Daraa Governorate.

In the 6th century, Aqraba served as a residence of the Ghassanid Arab princes, who ruled the Arabia and Palaestina Secunda provinces on behalf of the Byzantine Empire.

[4] The village was later mentioned by the 13th-century Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi,[2][4] who noted it belonged to the Jawlan district of Damascus and that "Ghassanid kings dwelt here of old".

[5] In 1596 Aqraba appeared in the Ottoman tax registers, situated in the nahiya of Jaydur, part of Hauran Sanjak.

They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, mostly wheat, but also some on barley and summer crops; in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 16,600 akçe.