Zawtar al-Gharbiyah

Zawtar al-Gharbiyah زوطر الغربية
Municipality
Zawtar al-Gharbiyah Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°19′20″N 35°27′45″E
Grid position	125/154 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Nabatieh District
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Zawtar al-Gharbiyah (Arabic: زوطر الغربية) is a municipality in the Nabatieh District in Lebanon.

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Sarqiyya, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 24 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 1,240 akçe.[1][2]

Demographics

In 2014, Muslims made up 99.47% of registered voters in Zawtar al-Gharbiyah. 98.78% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[3]

References

1. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 186
2. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
3. "التوزيع حسب المذاهب للناخبين/ناخبات في بلدة زوطر الغربية، قضاء النبطية محافظة النبطية في لبنان". إعْرَفْ لبنان.

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. Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2017-12-04.

External links

• Zaoutar El Gharbiyeh (archive.org)