Al-Qusaibah

Al-Qusaibah
القصيبة
El Kossaybeh
Municipality
Al-Qusaibah is located in Lebanon
Al-Qusaibah
Al-Qusaibah
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°20′01″N 35°23′48″E / 33.33361°N 35.39667°E / 33.33361; 35.39667
Grid position118/155 L
Country Lebanon
GovernorateNabatieh Governorate
DistrictNabatieh District
Government
 • MayorHassan Rachid Mehdi
 • MayorNajib Wehbe
Elevation
1,300 ft (400 m)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total
8,400
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3
postal code
71374
Area code+961 - (07 - South Lebanon)

Al-Qusaibah, (القصيبة), El Kossaybeh, also known as El Qsaïbé (in Arabic: القصيبة) is municipality in southern Lebanon on the northern side of the Litani's river.

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Qusayba, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif, part of Safad Sanjak, with a population of 26 households and 7 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, cotton, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 4,300 akçe.[1][2]

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here a village with 300 inhabitants, mostly Metualis and some Greek Orthodox. The mosque was possibly a former church.[3]

Demographics

In 2014 Muslims made up 99.62% of registered voters in Al-Qusaibah. 98.49% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[4]

References

  1. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 186
  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. ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 528
  4. ^ https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/القصيبة/المذاهب/

Bibliography

  • 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.
  • Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.