Hibran, also spelled Hebran or Hubran (Arabic: حبران, romanized: Ḥibrān), is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Suwayda Governorate, located south of Suwayda.
According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Hibran had a population of 3,166 in the 2004 census.
[1] Hibran was noted in the 1596 Ottoman census under the name of Hubran an-Nasara, being located in the nahiya of Bani Nasiyya in the Liwa of Hawran.
[2] Ottoman tax records indicate the revenues of Hibran were farmed out to Muhammad Alam al-Din, a Druze emir who fled Mount Lebanon in 1667, in 1669–1671.
[3] According to the historian Kais Firro, Hibran was one of twenty-eight villages in the Hauran settled by Druze before 1812;[4] in 1838 Hibran was noted as Druse village by Eli Smith.