Al-Hamdan

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Al-Hamdan or Hamdan (Arabic: ال حمدان‎) is a famous Druze family. A part of them was banished from Lebanon after the Battle of Ain Dara in 1711 and were among the first to migrate to Jabal ad-Duruz in Southern Syria. But the other part stayed in Lebanon, and many had high places in the government, and they still live today in Lebanon Bater ech chouf. And from their ancestors where Saif el Dawla and Abo Feras al Hamdany and much more great royal poets and knights in Alleppo and AlMousel. They became leaders in jabal al druze, but they lost their position to al-Atrash family in 1869. They were almost wiped out in the events. They still live today in different parts of Jabal ad-Duruz and in bater.

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