Al-Numairiyah

Al-Numairiyah
النميـرية
Municipality
Father and son having good times in the town of Al-Numairiyah
Father and son having good times in the town of Al-Numairiyah
Al-Numairiyah is located in Lebanon
Al-Numairiyah
Al-Numairiyah
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°25′23″N 35°23′56″E / 33.42306°N 35.39889°E / 33.42306; 35.39889
Grid position118/165 L
Country Lebanon
GovernorateNabatieh Governorate
DistrictNabatieh District
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3

Al-Numairiyah (Arabic: النميـرية) is a municipality in the Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Numayriyya, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 23 households and 6 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 2,492 akçe.[1][2]

Modern era

On July 29, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War, Israeli war-planes killed 6 civilians, aged 8 to 56 years old. There were no Hizbollah presence in the village at the time of the attack.[3]

Demographics

In 2014 Muslims made up 99.40% of registered voters in Al-Numairiyah. 97.77% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[4]

References

  1. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185
  2. ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  3. ^ HRW, 2007, pp. 118-119
  4. ^ https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/النميرية/المذاهب/

Bibliography

  • HRW (2007). Why They Died: Civilian Casualties in Lebanon During the 2006 War. Human Rights Watch.
  • Hütteroth, W.-D.; Abdulfattah, K. (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
  • Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). Columbia University.