Mayfadoun

Mayfadoun ميفدون
Municipality
Mayfadoun Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°20′55″N 35°28′35″E
Grid position	125/157 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Nabatieh District
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code	+961

Mayfadoun (Arabic: ميفدون) is a municipality in Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Mayfadun, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 11 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley and olive trees; a total of 5,269 akçe.[1][2]

See also: Israel–Hamas war and Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)

On 6 August 2024, four people, all of them Hezbollah fighters,[3] were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the village.[4]

Demographics

In 2014 Muslims made up 98.79% of registered voters in Mayfadoun. 97.13% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[5]

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. "Hezbollah fighters killed in Lebanon strike: Report". Al Jazeera.
4. "Four killed by Israeli air attack in southern Lebanon: Report". Al Jazeera. 6 August 2024.
5. https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/ميفدون/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.

External links

• Mayfadoun, Localiban