Shaqqa or Shakka (Arabic: شَقَّا, romanized: Šaqqā) is a Syrian town in As Suwayda Governorate in southern Syria.

The town's inhabitants are predominantly Druze who migrated to the region from Mount Lebanon starting from the 18th century.

In addition it has: Maximianopolis in Arabia, doubtless the seat of a Roman garrison,[1] was a colonia,[4] the highest rank of city in the empire.

[5] An inscription mentions a temple of Zeus Megistos,[6] and another bearing an epigram about the philosopher Proclus is a witness to local literary culture.

[7][8] An inscription of 594 speaks of the local bishop, named Tiberinus, having erected a martyrium of Saint George and other martyrs.