Nabatieh al-Fawqa

Nabatieh al-Fawqa النبطية الفوقا
Municipality
Nabatieh al-Fawqa
Coordinates: 33°21′22″N 35°29′44″E
Grid position	127/158 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Nabatieh
Time zone	GMT +3

Nabatieh al-Fawqa (Arabic: النبطية الفوقا), also known as Upper Nabatieh is a municipality in the Nabatieh Governorate.[1]

History

In the 1596 tax records in the early Ottoman era, it was named as a village, Nabatiyya al-Fawqa, in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad. It had a population of 104 households and 25 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid 2,200 akçe in taxes on olive trees, 450 for "occasional revenues", 602 on goats and bee hives, 30 for an olive oil press, or a press for grape syrup, and 5000 as a fixed amount; a total of 8,276 akçe.[2][3]

In 1875, Victor Guérin described the village as being located on a hill, and having 500 Métualis inhabitants. It was surrounded by gardens planted with fig trees.[4]

On 16 April 1996, Israeli warplanes bombed an apartment in Nabatieh Fawka, killing nine people, seven of whom were children.[5][6][7]

Demographics

In 2014 Muslims made up 98.60% of registered voters in Nabatieh al-Fawqa. 90.76% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[8]

References

1. Zaher, Suleiman. The dictionary of Jabal Amel villages. Vol. 2. p. 431.
2. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185
3. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
4. Guérin, 1880, p. 521
5. lebanons02 (2014-10-22). "An Israeli warplane destroyed a two-story house in upper Nabatieh killing nine civilians, including a mother and her seven children". Civil Society Knowledge Centre. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
6. The Economist 1996-07-15: Vol 336 Iss 7923. The Economist Intelligence Unit N.A. 1996-07-15.
7. Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs (16 November 1998). "Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Lebanon document - Letter from Lebanon". Question of Palestine. United Nations. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
8. https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/النبطية-الفوقا/المذاهب/

Bibliography

• Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
• 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

• Nabatiyeh El Faouqa, localiban.org