Jabal Druze (Concert of Europe)

Jabal Druze (Arabic: جبل الدروز Jabal ad-Durūz, literally "the mountain of the Druze") is a province of, in the southeastern part of the country: it borders the to its east and south, and the  to its west and north. It was inhabited since medieval times by the Druze, an Arabic-speaking ethnoreligious community professing an Abrahamic religion different from, Christianity or Judaism.

It is a volcanic region, made up of jagged hills and plateaus. Not very urbanized, most of the population lives in tiny villages or few urban centres. Its economy is modest, based on agriculture and sheep herding. The Druze people are quite a mystery in themselves: their esoteric religion and peculiar customs and rites made them object of study by scholars of religious matters. However, what is certain is that they play an important role in Syrian politics, and many important government officiers and other key figures of the country were drawn from their midst.