Kfar Sir

Kfar Sir
كفرصير
Municipality
Kfar Sir is located in Lebanon
Kfar Sir
Kfar Sir
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°19′30″N 35°24′03″E / 33.32500°N 35.40083°E / 33.32500; 35.40083
Grid position118/154 L
Country Lebanon
GovernorateNabatieh Governorate
DistrictNabatieh District
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3
Area code+961 - (07 - South Lebanon)

Kfar Sir or Kfarsir (Arabic: كفرصير) is a municipality just north of the Litani River, in the Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Kafr Tir, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 58 households and 5 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 6,231 akçe.[1][2]

Demographics

In 2014 Muslims made up 99.36% of registered voters in Kfar Sir. 98.99% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[3]

References

  1. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 184
  2. ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2020-03-01 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  3. ^ https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/كفرصير/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.
  • Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2017-12-04.