Sir al-Gharbiyah

Sir al-Gharbiyah سير الغربية
Municipality
Sir al-Gharbiyah Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°19′12″N 35°21′51″E
Grid position	114/154 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Nabatieh District
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	+3
Area code	+961 - (07 - South Lebanon)

Sir al-Gharbiyah (Arabic: سير الغربية) 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, Sir, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 10 households, 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"; a total of 2,000 akçe.[1][2]

On 23 February 1985, the Israeli Army shot dead seven young men from the village. Six of the dead were aged between fifteen and twenty. They were chosen after a round up of all the village men and machine gunned in the legs, two were bayoneted in the abdomen and one held under water until he drowned.[3][4]

Demographics

In 2014 Muslims made up 99.63% of registered voters in Sir al-Gharbiyah. 98.76% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[5]

Notable people

Hassan Maatouk, the Lebanon national football team all-time goalscorer and most-capped player, is native to Sir al-Gharbiyah.[6]

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. Hirst, David (2010) Beware of Small States. Lebanon, battleground of the Middle East. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-23741-8 pp.202-203
4. Middle East International No 263, 22 November 1985, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; p.17
5. https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/صير-الغربية/المذاهب/
6. "Hassan Maatouk". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 13 May 2024.

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

• Sir el Gharbiyeh, Localiban