The Bandak Family

The Origins of The Bandak Family
تاريخ البندك

the Bandak Family , is a family of an Original descends of the Ghassanids
and the meaning of the Family name is the Big Flag , Band(بند) in Arabic means
the Big Flag and ak (ك) means yours, so the whole gives a meaning of your flag
and , in that time in Yemen each tribe was having it's own Flag to distinguish from the other so the Bandaks this Surname .

The Ghassanids (Arabic: الغساسنة‎) were Arab Christians that emigrated in the year 250 from Yemen to the Hauran(حوران), in southern Syria. The term Ghassan refers to the kingdom of the Ghassanids, and is the name of a spring of water in the Hauran. The Ghassanid emigration has been passed down in the rich oral tradition of southern Syria. It is said that the Ghassanids came from the city of Ma'rib (مأرب)in Yemen. There was a dam in this city, however one year there was so much rain that the dam was carried away by the ensuing flood. Thus the people there had to leave. The inhabitants emigrated seeking to live in less arid lands and became scattered far and wide. The proverb “They were scattered like the people of Saba” refers to that exodus in history. The emigrants were from the southern Arab tribe of Azd. The king Jafna bin ‘Amr emigrated with his family and retinue north and settled in Hauran (south of Damascus) where the Ghassanid state was founded. There it is assumed that the Ghassanids adopted the religion of Christianity from the native Aramaeans and Romans. Modern southern-Syrians are a mix of these three peoples.

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