Douma's memory

The Turks had driven the people of Douma out of their village more than once and then set fire to the entire village. This was the price that the people of Douma had to pay as a result of ambushing a Turk contingent leader and his forty soldiers who came to the village to collect taxes. Stories mention that Douma Sheikh invited the contingent Leader and his 40 soldiers to a dinner banquet where the Leader saw the Sheikh's daughter and wanted to take her as his wife. Though the Sheikh turned down the leader's request, the latter insisted on it. So, the Sheikh of Douma turned to the people of his village, put a plan with them to kill the leader and his 40 soldiers. The Sheikh, with the help of the people of Douma poisoned the leader and his soldiers during the dinner banquet and killed their horses as well. Then they buried them all in a region known as "Jawar AlKhayl" (horse's neighborhood) that incident later known as “Al Qshlaq battle", and was one of the first incidents against the Othman Sultanate.

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http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/innersection/studies/Douma/douma_en.htm